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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. Who responds to a symposium on the subject of the lack of Catholic writers by saying "A Catholic, if he is devout, i.e., sold on the authority of his Church, is also brain-washed, whether he realizes it or not"?
(a) Brian McCarthy.
(b) Tom Duepner.
(c) Philip Wylie.
(d) Steve Spence.

2. Who was Baron von Hugel?
(a) A Catholic scholar.
(b) A Protestant preacher.
(c) A Pope.
(d) A French scientist.

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

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

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"?
(a) Intellectual.
(b) All-encompassing.
(c) American.
(d) Influential.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does O'Connor say has, for all its horror, been found by God to be worth dying for?

2. In what month did O'Connor present materials from "The Church and the Fiction Writer" during a talk at a college?

3. What does the Catholic reader separate nature from?

4. What John Hersey novel in O'Connor's examples did parents seem to object to?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does O'Connor say the Protestant South is a good place for Catholic writers to write?

2. What does O'Connor say about "The Foundling" written by Cardinal Spellman?

3. Why might a Catholic novelist feel angst about being both a Catholic and a fiction writer?

4. When does O'Connor say the greatest dramas occur?

5. How does O'Connor say that fiction writers and English teachers have common ground?

6. Why is the fiction writer vulnerable to public criticism?

7. Why does O'Connor suspect that readers like it when the devil appears in fiction?

8. What does O'Connor say about her book when she reviews it for class?

9. Why might a Catholic writer have to include more violence in his work than he is comfortable with?

10. What does O'Connor say about absolutes in fiction, particularly religious fiction?

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