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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, The Writer's Training and Education.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which author went to Paris and studied with one of the shrewdest writers, Gertrude Stein?
(a) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(b) Stephen Crane.
(c) Ernest Hemingway.
(d) Henry James.

2. What author does Gardner remark has a persistent mean streak in his writing?
(a) Joyce.
(b) Salinger.
(c) Kerouac.
(d) Hemingway.

3. What author does Gardner say has a deep misanthropic mistrust in Chapter 1?
(a) Dickens.
(b) Steinbeck.
(c) Bedlow.
(d) Flaubert.

4. In what novel does Levin propose to Kitty, as cited in Chapter 1?
(a) Emma.
(b) Anna Karenina.
(c) Nicholas Nickleby.
(d) Crime and Punishment.

5. What author responded to the question of why she wrote fiction, "Because I'm good at it"?
(a) Edith Wharton.
(b) Flannery O'Connor.
(c) Joyce Carol Oates.
(d) Sylvia Plath.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gardner claim is helpful, if it can be kept in partial control, to keep the novelist driven?

2. What word does Gardner use to describe that teaching which tends to emphasize theme and design over feeling and authentic narrative?

3. Which title does Raymond Carver say is the only one he recalls of John Gardner's manuscripts in the Forward?

4. What story of Robert Penn Warren's did Raymond Carver read in Gardner's class at Chico State College?

5. Gardner writes in Chapter 1 that if one studies with whom, does he learn that Shakespeare is better than Mickey Spillane?

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