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

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

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

4. In Chapter 1, Gardner writes that one is unable to write for everyone, "try to win the audience both of Saul Bellow and" whom?
(a) James Joyce.
(b) Charles Dickens.
(c) Stephen King.
(d) Anton Chekhov.

5. What other author did Herman Melville have among his circle of friends?
(a) Conrad.
(b) Joyce.
(c) Hawthorne.
(d) London.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, Gardner writes that the "true young novelist has the stamina, patience, and single-mindedness of a" what?

2. What author of experimental fiction teaches at Rice?

3. What does Gardner claim is helpful, if it can be kept in partial control, to keep the novelist driven?

4. What does M.F.A. stand for?

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

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