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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. Gardner writes in Chapter 2 that in the workshop he is teaching he encountered a story which he hopes to publish titled what?
(a) "Exit."
(b) "Tomorrow."
(c) "Thoughts."
(d) "Jason."

2. Gardner compares Melville's Moby Dick with what in Chapter 1?
(a) Emma.
(b) Anna Karanina.
(c) To Have and Have Not.
(d) Omoo.

3. What is the name of the writer's conference where Gardner has frequently worked with writing assistants?
(a) Last Dinner.
(b) Bread Loaf.
(c) Peabody.
(d) Silver Mountain.

4. What book was Gardner writing when he remembered the altered sense coming over him while in the last chapter?
(a) Grendel.
(b) October Light.
(c) Nickel Mountain.
(d) The Resurrection.

5. What is one of the only programs for funding for writers on the governmental level?
(a) The Fulbright Society.
(b) National Endowment of the Arts.
(c) National Writer Workshop.
(d) National Enlistment of Writers.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What author of experimental fiction teaches at Rice?

4. The study of what can give the young writer a clear sense of why our age is so troubled?

5. What story of Robert Penn Warren's did Raymond Carver read in Gardner's class at Chico State College?

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