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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is one of the oldest and best known writing workshops?
(a) Kansas.
(b) New Hampshire.
(c) Iowa.
(d) Kentucky.

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

3. Which magazine does Gardner refer to as elegant and rather timid, perfect for selling clothes and fine china?
(a) The Oxford Journal.
(b) The Atlantic.
(c) The New Yorker.
(d) The New York Times Book Review.

4. As when learning to bicycle, writer should take one thing at a time: perfect a passage of description, then a passage of dialog, then move to the larger units of what?
(a) Poems.
(b) Scenes.
(c) Novels.
(d) Short stories.

5. What is one of the philosophers who has maintained that words inevitably distance us from the brute existence, according to Gardner in Chapter 1?
(a) Nietzsche.
(b) Kierkegaard.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Plato.

Short Answer Questions

1. What magazine does Gardner suggest for good literary work in Chapter 1?

2. While some writer's block can be incurable, "it generally helps to understand what is going on _______ and see that he is not unique."

3. Gardner suggests the young writer get a first-rate freshman composition book such as An American Rhetoric by whom?

4. To whose poetry and prose had Gardner made allusions to in the novel Grendel?

5. What does Gardner say brings together groups of young writers who, even in the absence of superb teachers, can be of help to one another?

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