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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. Who is the author of Crime and Punishment?
(a) Joyce.
(b) Dostoevsky.
(c) Flannagan.
(d) Nabokov.

2. What author of Over the Edge does Gardner cite in Chapter 1?
(a) Harlan Ellison.
(b) Kurt Vonnegut.
(c) James Joyce.
(d) Franz Kafka.

3. What is one of the most important things for a young writer to have, according to Gardner in Chapter 2?
(a) Ego.
(b) Religion.
(c) Family.
(d) Community.

4. What book was Gardner writing when he remembered the altered sense coming over him while in the last chapter?
(a) Grendel.
(b) The Resurrection.
(c) October Light.
(d) Nickel Mountain.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the world of grants, Gardner writes in Chapter 2, who has a better chance than other artists?

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

3. In what novel does Gardner note the rooftop scene as being one of surprise in Chapter 1?

4. Who wrote Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy?

5. What author responded to the question of why she wrote fiction, "Because I'm good at it"?

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