On Becoming a Novelist Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 127 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

On Becoming a Novelist Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 127 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, The Writer's Nature, Pages 34-72.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is one of the writers Gardner notes in Chapter 1 as having both a fine ear for language and also a fascination with the materials?
(a) Fitzgerald.
(b) Proust.
(c) Hemingway.
(d) Joyce.

3. Gardner refers to boring, worn out language as being what kind of mask?
(a) Dramatic.
(b) Need-for-approval.
(c) Hamlet.
(d) Pollyanna.

4. Who is the author of Death in Venice?
(a) Clifford Odets.
(b) Thomas Mann.
(c) William Shakespeare.
(d) Herman Melville.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first thing that Gardner states a writer needs to have in Chapter 1?

2. What painter does Gardner remark in Chapter 1 never sold a painting in his life?

3. In what novel does Levin propose to Kitty, as cited in Chapter 1?

4. What author does Gardner say has a deep misanthropic mistrust in Chapter 1?

5. Who wrote Divine Comedy?

(see the answer key)

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