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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. Which title does Raymond Carver say is the only one he recalls of John Gardner's manuscripts in the Forward?
(a) The King's Indian.
(b) Grendel.
(c) The Life and Times of Chaucer.
(d) Nickel Mountain.

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

3. What author does Gardner say has a deep misanthropic mistrust in Chapter 1?
(a) Dickens.
(b) Flaubert.
(c) Steinbeck.
(d) Bedlow.

4. Which writer, although thought of as a solitary genius, spent time working in close community with Ford Maddox Ford?
(a) Stephen Crane.
(b) Joseph Conrad.
(c) Ernest Hemingway.
(d) Henry James.

5. Gardner suggests the young writer get a first-rate freshman composition book such as An American Rhetoric by whom?
(a) James A. Richards.
(b) W. W. Watt.
(c) Stuart Waterman.
(d) Michael A. Morris.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which sci-fi author wrote A Canticle for Liebowitz?

3. What name does Gardner assign to the teenage daughter whose unknown father moves next door in Chapter 1?

4. In Chapter 1, Gardner writes that one is unable to write for everyone, "try to win the audience both of Saul Bellow and" whom?

5. What does Gardner compare to the floors and structural supports in a fine old mansion in Chapter 1?

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