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

2. Gardner states in Chapter 2 that an individual style is developed as much by resistance as by what?
(a) Malleability.
(b) Emulation.
(c) Contortion.
(d) Adjustment.

3. Gardner suggests that the dazzling poetry of Mercutio's Queen Mab speech is not the same poetry that who speaks?
(a) Macbeth.
(b) Hamlet.
(c) Petrucio.
(d) Juliet.

4. What story of Robert Penn Warren's did Raymond Carver read in Gardner's class at Chico State College?
(a) "To Have and Have Not."
(b) "Last of the Mohicans."
(c) "Blackberry Winter."
(d) "Ulysses."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose disguise in Jane Eyre does Gardner comment on as surprising in Chapter 1?

2. Gardner refers to boring, worn out language as being what kind of mask?

3. Gardner notes in Chapter 1 that all writing requires some measure of a ____ state.

4. What experimental writer does Gardner mention having been moved and delighted by in Chapter 2?

5. What does Gardner state in Chapter 1 that we call a writer who cares more for language than the other elements of fiction?

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