Q 01/05

Flannery O'Connor's fiction is usually filed under which literary style?

A) Transcendentalism

B) Southern Gothic

C) Beat literature

D) Naturalism

Answer · why

B) Southern Gothic

Southern Gothic trades in the grotesque, and she joked that Northern readers call anything from the South grotesque, unless it really is, when they ca...

Q 02/05

In which Georgia city was Flannery O'Connor born in 1925?

A) Atlanta

B) Savannah

C) Macon

D) Augusta

Answer · why

B) Savannah

Savannah still has her childhood home because, when it came up for sale in 1989, a college president and two professors formed a foundation to buy it ...

Q 03/05

Apart from two novels, O'Connor's fiction took which form?

A) Novellas

B) Short stories

C) Stage plays

D) Narrative poems

Answer · why

B) Short stories

Short stories: her name rests on two collections of them, and she lived to see only the first in print, because the second came out the year after she...

Q 04/05

What disease, the same one that had killed her father, ended O'Connor's life at 39?

A) Tuberculosis

B) Lupus

C) Leukaemia

D) Multiple sclerosis

Answer · why

B) Lupus

Lupus killed her father when she was fifteen and struck her at twenty-five, on a winter journey home to Georgia; she wrote most of her fiction while l...

Q 05/05

What did O'Connor's mother run at Andalusia?

A) Dairy farm

B) Peach orchard

C) Cotton plantation

D) Horse stud

Answer · why

A) Dairy farm

Dairy farm: her mother ran it with the help of tenants, and capable farm women and their hired hands turn up all through the later stories.