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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 story of Robert Penn Warren's did Raymond Carver read in Gardner's class at Chico State College?
(a) "Blackberry Winter."
(b) "To Have and Have Not."
(c) "Ulysses."
(d) "Last of the Mohicans."

2. Of whose writing does Gardner say that no reader can doubt the impulse to capture real life, "the special quality of country-Welsh craziness"?
(a) Dylan Thomas.
(b) Samuel Beckett.
(c) John Updike.
(d) Shakespeare.

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

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

5. In what novel does Levin propose to Kitty, as cited in Chapter 1?
(a) Nicholas Nickleby.
(b) Crime and Punishment.
(c) Anna Karenina.
(d) Emma.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gardner writes in Chapter 1 that if one studies with whom, does he learn that Shakespeare is better than Mickey Spillane?

2. What experimental writer does Gardner mention having been moved and delighted by in Chapter 2?

3. What is one of the only programs for funding for writers on the governmental level?

4. Gardner refers to boring, worn out language as being what kind of mask?

5. What other author did Herman Melville have among his circle of friends?

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