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

2. Gardner states in Chapter 2, "If there are objective laws of ______, not all of theme apply in every instance, and none of them finally have to do with purpose."
(a) Writing.
(b) Art.
(c) Opinion.
(d) Aesthetics.

3. Gardner compares the first thrill of achievement of the writer to that of an oboist or what?
(a) Painter.
(b) Actor.
(c) Gambler.
(d) Pianist.

4. What author once remarked "the best way to become a writer is to go off and write"?
(a) London.
(b) Hemingway.
(c) Fitzgerald.
(d) Ibsen.

5. Gardner states in Chapter 2 that an individual style is developed as much by resistance as by what?
(a) Adjustment.
(b) Contortion.
(c) Emulation.
(d) Malleability.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is, according to Gardner, the one quality in fiction that cannot be faked?

2. Who developed the style of the "epiphany story" in The Dubliners?

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

4. What author does Gardner remark has a bad habit of breaking the vivid and continuous dream by pouring on the rhetoric in Chapter 1?

5. Where does Gardner teach workshops, as he claims it has a good program for fiction?

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