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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. In Chapter 2, Gardner states, "A writer does not become better by being ____."
(a) Scorned.
(b) Pandered to.
(c) Adored.
(d) Beaten.

2. What does Gardner compare to the floors and structural supports in a fine old mansion in Chapter 1?
(a) Plot.
(b) Theme.
(c) Action.
(d) Character.

3. What story of Robert Penn Warren's did Raymond Carver read in Gardner's class at Chico State College?
(a) "To Have and Have Not."
(b) "Last of the Mohicans."
(c) "Ulysses."
(d) "Blackberry Winter."

4. What does Gardner say "breeds success" in Chapter 1?
(a) Dedication.
(b) Connections.
(c) Success.
(d) Persistence.

5. In Chapter 2, Gardner notes that "The wide range of opinion in a class affords increases the writer's chance of getting a _____."
(a) Full listening.
(b) True response.
(c) Fair hearing.
(d) Opinion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What painter does Gardner remark in Chapter 1 never sold a painting in his life?

2. Gardner states that the effective writer leads the reader into a continuous what?

3. What author does Gardner remark has a bad habit of breaking the vivid and continuous dream by pouring on the rhetoric in Chapter 1?

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

5. The study of what can give the young writer a clear sense of why our age is so troubled?

(see the answer key)

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