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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Preface to The Child Runs Deep in Filidor.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the "cool student" who refuses to take sides in the schoolyard brawl between Kneadus and Syphon?
(a) Hopek.
(b) Slowaki.
(c) Mizdral.
(d) Kopyrda.

2. According to the narrator, what are all writers dependent on above all else?
(a) Talent.
(b) Audience.
(c) Inspiration.
(d) Truth.

3. How does the narrator feel about literary critics who hold fast to the iron-clad rules of construction?
(a) He ignores them.
(b) He ridicules them.
(c) He is confused by them.
(d) He admires them.

4. What does the narrator extol for creating mythology?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Symbolism.
(c) Repetition.
(d) Character.

5. Which musician does the narrator claim audiences appreciate only because the larger musical world tells them to?
(a) Chopin.
(b) Bach.
(c) Beethoven.
(d) Tschikovsky.

Short Answer Questions

1. What insect does Kneadus eat as counter-attack to the first face in the dual?

2. How do the students in Joey's classroom react when they meet him for the first time?

3. According to the narrator, what are all underdeveloped artists bound to create?

4. What sound signifies the end of class at Joey's school?

5. What does the narrator think will happen to a novel in which the first word is heroic?

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