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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Faith.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) John Updike.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Samuel Beckett.

2. Gardner cites a passage from which of his novels in discussing the poem in Chapter 4?
(a) The King's Indian.
(b) In the Suicide Mountains.
(c) Grendel.
(d) October Light.

3. Who wrote Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy?
(a) Raymond Carver.
(b) Ernest Hemingway.
(c) Theodore Dreiser.
(d) William Faulkner.

4. If a writer agrees with the notes an editor sends, he should do what with his manuscript?
(a) Send it elsewhere.
(b) Revise it.
(c) Ask another opinion.
(d) Burn it.

5. What quirk of speech does Gardner say New Yorkers replace "take" with?
(a) Went.
(b) Give.
(c) Came.
(d) Bring.

Short Answer Questions

1. The poem of Gardner's which he uses as an example in Chapter 4 begins, "Lovely, spooky, dark blue Gentian, / Inner walls like speckled _____."

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

3. The two things that keep the common reader turning the pages, according to Gardner are story or what?

4. What does Gardner say we call a writer who has less feeling for his characters than we feel they deserve?

5. Gardner writes in Chapter 2 that in the workshop he is teaching he encountered a story which he hopes to publish titled what?

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