Mystery and Manners; Occasional Prose Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

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Mystery and Manners; Occasional Prose Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 117 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color was the helmet of the telephone repairman that came to O'Connor's farm?

2. Who is the Dixie Limited?

3. What reason did O'Connor give a female student who asked her why she writes?

4. Besides the telephone repairman, who did O'Connor say is indifferent to the peacock's display?

5. How many peafowl did O'Connor have after nine years?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What makes Georgia writers different from writers from New York or Hollywood According to O'Connor?

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

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

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

8. How did a man and his five white-haired children react when they saw the peacock in the road?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine what O'Connor says about the writer's preoccupation with the poor. Why does she believe that writers tend to write about poor people? In what ways do poor people make interesting stories? What is it about the poor and their manners that attract writers? What does she mean when she says that everyone is poor in the eyes of the novelist?

Essay Topic 2

What does O'Connor mean when she says it is the business of fiction to embody mystery and manners? What does she mean when she talks of manners? Of mystery? How does a writer figure out what their mystery and manners are? How does O'Connor find her mystery and manners? How do mystery and manners work together to create interesting fiction? How does regionalism tie into mystery and manners?

Essay Topic 3

Look at O'Connor's feelings toward aspiring writers. What does O'Connor feel most aspiring writers are interested in? What does she mean when she says aspiring writers are interested in "being a writer"? What should the serious writer be interested in? Why do you think she makes a point to stress these ideas to a writing class? Why does it frustrate the author to have to explain writing?

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