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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Faith.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The study of what can give the young writer a clear sense of why our age is so troubled?
(a) Philology.
(b) English.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Drama.

2. What is the name of the man who moves next door to his teenage daughter in Gardner's hypothetical story in Chapter 1?
(a) James.
(b) Bill.
(c) Frank.
(d) Bob.

3. What literary magazine does Gardner publish?
(a) MSS.
(b) Reader's Digest.
(c) Writer's Weekly.
(d) MRR.

4. Gardner notes in Chapter 3 that all second-rate stories tend to do what?
(a) Get acclaim.
(b) Sound alike.
(c) Get rejected.
(d) Get published.

5. Who is one of the writers Gardner notes in Chapter 1 as having both a fine ear for language and also a fascination with the materials?
(a) Fitzgerald.
(b) Joyce.
(c) Hemingway.
(d) Proust.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sometimes friends contribute by praising things that the writer knows are what?

2. Gardner states in Chapter 3 that one should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of whom?

3. In Chapter 2, Gardner states, "A writer does not become better by being ____."

4. What author of experimental fiction teaches at Rice?

5. In Chapter 2, Gardner notes that "The wide range of opinion in a class affords increases the writer's chance of getting a _____."

(see the answer key)

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