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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 what novel does Gardner note the rooftop scene as being one of surprise in Chapter 1?
(a) Nicholas Nickleby.
(b) Emma.
(c) Seize the Day.
(d) Crime and Punishment.

2. 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) Proust.
(c) Hemingway.
(d) Joyce.

3. What author of experimental fiction teaches at Rice?
(a) Thomas Pinchon.
(b) Michael James.
(c) Kurt Vonnegut.
(d) Max Apple.

4. What word does Gardner use to describe that teaching which tends to emphasize theme and design over feeling and authentic narrative?
(a) Amateur.
(b) Inverted.
(c) Workshoppy.
(d) Developmental.

5. What other author did Herman Melville have among his circle of friends?
(a) Hawthorne.
(b) London.
(c) Joyce.
(d) Conrad.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Gardner states in Chapter 2 that an individual style is developed as much by resistance as by what?

3. What did Garner always wear, according to Raymond Carver in the Forward?

4. Gardner writes in Chapter 1 that when the central character is a victim there is no what?

5. Who wrote Divine Comedy?

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