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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What award did Percy Walker win?
(a) Regional Book Prize.
(b) National Novelist Award.
(c) National Book Award.
(d) Georgia Writers Grant.

2. What author said his aim as a fiction writer is to render the highest possible justice to the visible universe?
(a) Updike.
(b) Conrad.
(c) Whitman.
(d) Hemingway.

3. What item of clothing did Colonel Eggbert wear?
(a) A blouse.
(b) A pique coat.
(c) A top hat.
(d) A jumper.

4. Who said that the artist is concerned with the good of that which is made?
(a) St. Aaron.
(b) St. Maro.
(c) St. Thomas.
(d) St. Patrick.

5. O'Connor became frustrated because the writing students she addressed were looking for what?
(a) Advice.
(b) A mentor.
(c) A formula.
(d) To copy the British.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does O'Connor believe truly speaks for the country?

2. Henry James gave negative criticism by telling the writer that they have treated good subject manner in what kind of manner?

3. What does O'Connor say fiction should deal with?

4. What did the magazine editorial that challenged American writers say literature lacks?

5. Who does O'Connor quote at the end of "The Fiction Writer and His Country"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the peacock react when a telephone repairman tried to get him to strut?

2. How does O'Connor feel about Southern writing being labeled as "grotesque"?

3. How does O'Connor feel about short stories?

4. Why does O'Connor advise that if an author is called a Southern writer he is best to rid himself of the title as soon as possible?

5. What does O'Connor say about reality in fiction writing?

6. What dream did O'Connor have at the end of "The King of the Birds"?

7. Why did the man who sold fence posts get rid of his peafowl?

8. How does O'Connor feel about the fiction writer using symbols?

9. What is the gist of an editorial written to Life magazine regarding writers?

10. In what ways did the peafowl wreck the O'Connor farm?

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