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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 author of experimental fiction teaches at Rice?
(a) Thomas Pinchon.
(b) Max Apple.
(c) Michael James.
(d) Kurt Vonnegut.

2. Gardner states that the effective writer leads the reader into a continuous what?
(a) Characterization.
(b) Dream.
(c) Story line.
(d) Trance.

3. What is the first thing that Gardner states a writer needs to have in Chapter 1?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Verbal sensitivity.
(d) Empathy.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gardner say we call a writer who has less feeling for his characters than we feel they deserve?

2. Who is the author of Death in Venice?

3. Who wrote Divine Comedy?

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

5. Which author went to Paris and studied with one of the shrewdest writers, Gertrude Stein?

(see the answer key)

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