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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose pig does not know what bacon is?
(a) Mr. Sosebee.
(b) Mr. Harper.
(c) Mr. McRae.
(d) Mr. Jarrell.

2. What is it generally supposed that Catholic writers use their fiction to do?
(a) Display a love of the Church.
(b) Express the evils of the world.
(c) Prove the truth of Faith.
(d) Show that Protestanrs are wrong.

3. What does O'Connor think English teachers can help change?
(a) The number of college students who have all A's.
(b) The education systems in third world countries.
(c) The rate of high school drop outs.
(d) The best-seller list.

4. O'Connor mentions instances where parents from what state object to their child's reading assignments?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Florida.
(d) Alabama.

5. Which Steinbeck novel in O'Connor's examples did parents seem to object to?
(a) Tortilla Flats.
(b) East of Eden.
(c) Of Mice and Men.
(d) Cannery Row.

6. What does O'Connor say one should do if they want topics?
(a) Listen to the radio.
(b) Read a newspaper.
(c) Read a biography.
(d) Read a work of fiction.

7. What part of Catholicism does O'Connor say should help a person penetrate realities?
(a) Communion.
(b) Dogma.
(c) Baptism.
(d) Salvation.

8. In what year did O'Connor present materials from "The Church and the Fiction Writer" during a talk at a college?
(a) 1958.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1959.

9. Which character in fiction is usually disturbing to the reader?
(a) The freak.
(b) The character who is physically ill.
(c) The violent woman.
(d) The poor man.

10. Who said that the morality of a piece of fiction depends on the amount of "felt life" that was in it?
(a) Oscar Wilde.
(b) Harper Lee.
(c) Henry James.
(d) John Updike.

11. How many fundamental truths do Catholic writers live and work in?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Five.
(d) Four.

12. O'Connor presented materials from "The Church and the Fiction Writer" during a talk at what college?
(a) Yale.
(b) Sarah Lawrence.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Notre Dame.

13. What family member of O'Connor's reviewed her novel for her high school class?
(a) Niece.
(b) Sister.
(c) Cousin.
(d) Daughter.

14. What will always be a Catholic novel's center of destruction?
(a) Money.
(b) Anger.
(c) The devil.
(d) Sin.

15. Who does O'Connor say South Boston belongs to?
(a) Robert Lewis Taylor.
(b) Edwin O'Connor.
(c) James Agee.
(d) Allen Drury.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the college publication that printed a symposium on the subject of the lack of Catholic writers?

2. What book does O'Connor say is not well written but the author should not be judged by his intent?

3. In what area of the United States do Catholic writers have the burden of regionalism to overcome?

4. Who said if you want to write stories not to drive the poor from your doorstep?

5. O'Connor says that it is not fair to demand that novelists be what kind of novelists at the end of "The Teaching of Literature"?

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