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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 kind of intelligence does Gardner say is important to the writer in Chapter 1?
(a) Storyteller's.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) Philosophical.
(d) Psychological.

2. Gardner notes in Chapter 1 that Mercutio's madness is fantastic and what?
(a) Unbalanced.
(b) Ironic.
(c) Justified.
(d) Phantasmic.

3. Gardner writes in Chapter 1 that if one studies with whom, does he learn that Shakespeare is better than Mickey Spillane?
(a) Dr. Stanley Fish.
(b) Dr. Martin Meyer.
(c) Dr. Andrew Dryd.
(d) Dr. Michael Mortenson.

4. Gardner writes in Chapter 2 that in a bad workshop, the teacher takes the place of the student's what?
(a) Critical imagination.
(b) Internal critic.
(c) Ability to think.
(d) Assimilation.

5. What magazine does Gardner suggest for good literary work in Chapter 1?
(a) The London Book Review.
(b) The Londoner.
(c) The New Yorker.
(d) The Reader's Digest.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which author wrote A Tale of Two Cities?

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

4. With what older colleague did Gardner publish an anthology of fiction at Chico College?

5. What does Gardner say that good fiction starts off in the reader's head?

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