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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What word does Gardner use to mean a phrase is worn out and overused?
(a) Trite.
(b) Cliche.
(c) Ironic.
(d) Sentimental.
2. What does Gardner say "breeds success" in Chapter 1?
(a) Persistence.
(b) Connections.
(c) Success.
(d) Dedication.
3. What author does Gardner say was known to arrive at a party and sit for ten minutes or more staring at guests and not answering when people addressed him in Chapter1?
(a) Moliere.
(b) Anthony Trollope.
(c) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(d) James Joyce.
4. Which sci-fi author wrote A Canticle for Liebowitz?
(a) J.D. Salinger.
(b) Walter M. Miller, Jr.
(c) Kurt Vonnegut.
(d) Jack Humphries.
5. Gardner writes in Chapter 1 that when the central character is a victim there is no what?
(a) Empathy.
(b) Suspense.
(c) Terror.
(d) Action.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which philosopher maintained that nothing a writer writes means anything, "all the words are a lunatic blithering," since all language is by nature false and misleading?
2. Who is the author of Death in Venice?
3. Gardner writes in Chapter 1 that if one studies with whom, does he learn that Shakespeare is better than Mickey Spillane?
4. Gardner suggests that the dazzling poetry of Mercutio's Queen Mab speech is not the same poetry that who speaks?
5. In what novel does Levin propose to Kitty, as cited in Chapter 1?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the young author learn technique through reading others?
2. What does Gardner remark of the author's sense of observation in Chapter 1?
3. What is the second indicator of talent that Gardner discusses in Chapter 1? What author does he cite in this?
4. What does Gardner say in Chapter 1 regarding "verbal sensitivity?" What does this term mean?
5. What does Gardner say of writers with "bad taste" in language in Chapter 1?
6. What is the "moronic setup" that Gardner relates in Chapter 1?
7. Where did Gardner learn his method of writing?
8. What hypothetical situation does Gardner uses as an example of plot in Chapter 1?
9. What does Gardner suggest as ways to understand the psychology of characters unlike themselves?
10. Who does Gardner refer to as the "best" novelists in Chapter 1? What lesson does he cite of them?
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