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

2. Who is the author of Crime and Punishment?
(a) Dostoevsky.
(b) Joyce.
(c) Nabokov.
(d) Flannagan.

3. Who wrote Bartelby the Scrivener?
(a) Thomas Mann.
(b) Herman Melville.
(c) Ernest Hemingway.
(d) James Joyce.

4. What did Garner always wear, according to Raymond Carver in the Forward?
(a) A gray suit.
(b) A black suit.
(c) A brown suit.
(d) A gray fedora.

5. What author does Gardner say has a deep misanthropic mistrust in Chapter 1?
(a) Steinbeck.
(b) Dickens.
(c) Flaubert.
(d) Bedlow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Gardner's first wife's name?

2. What author of Over the Edge does Gardner cite in Chapter 1?

3. Which author wrote A Tale of Two Cities?

4. What psychologist suggests that Jack and the Beanstalk is about penis envy?

5. Gardner compares Melville's Moby Dick with what in Chapter 1?

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