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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. In which novel does O'Connor say all its sentences could be examined with wonder?
(a) The Pit and the Pendulum.
(b) The Great Gatsby.
(c) Uncle Tom's Cabin.
(d) Madame Bovary.

2. How old was O'Connor when a photographer visited her in "The King of the Birds"?
(a) 15.
(b) 5.
(c) 12.
(d) 3.

3. What kind of vision does O'Connor say a fiction writer needs to develop?
(a) Anagogical.
(b) Natural.
(c) Undisguised.
(d) Palpable.

4. What did the telephone repairman comment on when O'Connor asked what he thinks of the peacock?
(a) Its bad attitude.
(b) Its legs.
(c) Its tail.
(d) Its coloring.

5. O'Connor says belief in what is a hindrance to writers?
(a) God.
(b) Christian dogma.
(c) The American dream.
(d) Good and evil.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does O'Connor says causes Southerners anguish?

2. How did the man selling fence posts get rid of his peafowl?

3. How long can a peacock live?

4. Where did O'Connor's first set of peafowl come from?

5. How many peafowl did O'Connor buy from an ad in a paper?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the peahen act when she lays eggs?

2. How does O'Connor describe grotesque writing?

3. Why did a photographer visit O'Connor when she was a young girl?

4. Why does O'Connor believe Southern writers are anguished?

5. How did the peafowl feel about O'Connor after nine years?

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

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

8. Why does O'Connor believe that Christian writers will best be able to discern the grotesque?

9. How does O'Connor feel about the peahens?

10. How does O'Connor react to the editorial's cry for more spiritual writing, showing the joys of life?

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