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

2. 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) "God only knows."
(c) "You'll know in time."
(d) "Definitely no."

3. 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?
(a) Colleges.
(b) Writers' workshops.
(c) Seminars.
(d) Graduate programs.

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

5. In Chapter 1, Gardner states that "In a literary culture where the very notion of a 'masterpiece' is commonly thought" what?
(a) Dangerous.
(b) Immature.
(c) Barbaric.
(d) Impossible.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of The Turn of the Screw?

2. What kind of intelligence does Gardner say is important to the writer in Chapter 1?

3. What is one of the most important things for a young writer to have, according to Gardner in Chapter 2?

4. What is the name of the man who moves next door to his teenage daughter in Gardner's hypothetical story in Chapter 1?

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

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