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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 does Gardner say one can be fooled by the nature of imagining that the best way to become a writer is to be a seaman or a lumberjack?
(a) Jack Frost.
(b) Thomas Pinchon.
(c) Jack London.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

2. Gardner states in Chapter 2 that the first value of a writer's workshop is that it makes the young writer feel not abnormal but what?
(a) Enlightened.
(b) Virtuous.
(c) Accepted.
(d) Smart.

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

4. Which sci-fi author wrote A Canticle for Liebowitz?
(a) J.D. Salinger.
(b) Jack Humphries.
(c) Walter M. Miller, Jr.
(d) Kurt Vonnegut.

5. What is the name of the writer's conference where Gardner has frequently worked with writing assistants?
(a) Bread Loaf.
(b) Silver Mountain.
(c) Peabody.
(d) Last Dinner.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of whose writing does Gardner say that no reader can doubt the impulse to capture real life, "the special quality of country-Welsh craziness"?

2. What author once remarked "the best way to become a writer is to go off and write"?

3. What psychologist suggests that Jack and the Beanstalk is about penis envy?

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

5. Who is cited as the head of the writing program at Johns Hopkins and favors new and strange styles?

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