On Becoming a Novelist Quiz

John Gardner

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Chapter 1, The Writer's Nature, Pages 1-34

Chapter 1, The Writer's Nature, Pages 34-72

Chapter 2, The Writer's Training and Education

Chapter 3, Publication and Survival

Chapter 4, Faith

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On Becoming a Novelist Quiz

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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? (from Chapter 4, Faith)

What book was Gardner writing when he remembered the altered sense coming over him while in the last chapter? (from Chapter 1, The Writer's Nature, Pages 34-72)

In Chapter 2, Gardner states, "A writer does not become better by being ____." (from Chapter 2, The Writer's Training and Education)

The poem of Gardner's which he uses as an example in Chapter 4 begins, "Lovely, spooky, dark blue Gentian, / Inner walls like speckled _____." (from Chapter 4, Faith)

In Chapter 2, what does Gardner say the world has far more than it needs? (from Chapter 2, The Writer's Training and Education)