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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. Where had John Gardner taught before Chico State College?
(a) New York University.
(b) University of Ohio.
(c) Oberlin College.
(d) DePaul University.

2. What does Gardner claim is helpful, if it can be kept in partial control, to keep the novelist driven?
(a) A need for love.
(b) A psychological wound.
(c) A tendency to drink.
(d) A tendency to prove himself.

3. What word does Gardner use to describe that teaching which tends to emphasize theme and design over feeling and authentic narrative?
(a) Workshoppy.
(b) Amateur.
(c) Developmental.
(d) Inverted.

4. What is, according to Gardner, the one quality in fiction that cannot be faked?
(a) Honor.
(b) Love.
(c) Strangeness.
(d) Beauty.

5. Which is one of the great graduate programs for writers that Gardner refers to in Chapter 2?
(a) NYU.
(b) Oxford.
(c) Stanford.
(d) Carnegie Mellon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What author does Gardner say has a deep misanthropic mistrust in Chapter 1?

2. Which author does Gardner say has a style at parties to take to the floor at any cost, telling funny stories?

3. Gardner claims he has been happy writing since the age of what?

4. In Chapter 1, Gardner writes, "Though there are exceptions, as a rule the good novelist does not worry primarily about ____ brilliance."

5. Gardner notes in Chapter 1 that Mercutio's madness is fantastic and what?

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