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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The two things that keep the common reader turning the pages, according to Gardner are story or what?
(a) Argument.
(b) Character.
(c) Theme.
(d) Mood.

2. Gardner claims he has been happy writing since the age of what?
(a) 16.
(b) 8.
(c) 6.
(d) 12.

3. What does Gardner say that good fiction starts off in the reader's head?
(a) An addiction.
(b) A hunger for more.
(c) A nightmare.
(d) A continuous dream.

4. What is the honest answer to the question most young writer's ask of "Do I have what it takes to be a writer?" according to Gardner?
(a) "Definitely yet."
(b) "Definitely no."
(c) "God only knows."
(d) "You'll know in time."

5. What anthology of fiction did Gardner publish with a colleague at Chico College?
(a) Dragon, Dragon, and Other Tales.
(b) The Complete Works of the Gawain Poet.
(c) The Forms of Fiction.
(d) The Life and Times of Chaucer.

6. What author does Gardner remark has a persistent mean streak in his writing?
(a) Salinger.
(b) Kerouac.
(c) Hemingway.
(d) Joyce.

7. What kind of intelligence does Gardner say is important to the writer in Chapter 1?
(a) Psychological.
(b) Storyteller's.
(c) Philosophical.
(d) Mathematics.

8. In what novel does Levin propose to Kitty, as cited in Chapter 1?
(a) Emma.
(b) Anna Karenina.
(c) Nicholas Nickleby.
(d) Crime and Punishment.

9. Who wrote Finnegan's Wake?
(a) Nabokov.
(b) Robbe-Grillet.
(c) Flaubert.
(d) Joyce.

10. Who is the author of Crime and Punishment?
(a) Nabokov.
(b) Joyce.
(c) Dostoevsky.
(d) Flannagan.

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

12. What masterpiece of James Joyce does Gardner suggest typing out for language growth in Chapter 1?
(a) "The Dead."
(b) "The Wall."
(c) "Ulysses."
(d) "Finnegan's Wake."

13. Gardner notes in Chapter 1 that Mercutio's madness is fantastic and what?
(a) Phantasmic.
(b) Justified.
(c) Ironic.
(d) Unbalanced.

14. What is the first thing that Gardner states a writer needs to have in Chapter 1?
(a) Empathy.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Verbal sensitivity.

15. Where did Raymond Carver move to Chico, California from?
(a) Connecticut.
(b) Arkansas.
(c) Wyoming.
(d) Washington.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What author of Over the Edge does Gardner cite in Chapter 1?

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

4. What does Gardner claim is helpful, if it can be kept in partial control, to keep the novelist driven?

5. Gardner states in Chapter 1 that Canterbury Tales is a disguised what?

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