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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. From what newspaper was the photographer who visited O'Connor at her home?
(a) The Weekly Report.
(b) Pathe News.
(c) USA Today.
(d) The New York Times.

2. How many peafowl did O'Connor buy from an ad in a paper?
(a) 5.
(b) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

3. Where did O'Connor see the ad for her first peafowl?
(a) The Market Bulletin.
(b) The Daily Mail.
(c) The Florida Express.
(d) The Bazaar.

4. What grade were the children who visited O'Connor's farm to see her peafowl?
(a) Third.
(b) Second.
(c) First.
(d) Fourth.

5. Who does O'Connor quote at the end of "The Fiction Writer and His Country"?
(a) Elvis Presley.
(b) Pope Leo XIII.
(c) St. Cyril.
(d) Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Thomas Mann said that the grotesque is what style?

3. How much was a pair of peafowl that O'Connor saw in the paper?

4. According to O'Connor, what do Northern authors consider everything written by Southerners?

5. O'Connor says belief in what is a hindrance to writers?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does O'Connor feel about the average person that is interested in writing?

2. What does O'Connor mean when she says a writer must find his location in order to do his best work?

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

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

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

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

7. Why does O'Connor think some people pretend to be unaffected by the peacocks?

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

9. What observations does O'Connor make about the student manuscripts she read?

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

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