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

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

3. Of what author does Gardner say his heroes are clown-heroes knocked around by the universe?
(a) Kafka.
(b) Odets.
(c) James.
(d) Hemingway.

4. Gardner compares the first thrill of achievement of the writer to that of an oboist or what?
(a) Pianist.
(b) Actor.
(c) Painter.
(d) Gambler.

5. What word does Gardner use to mean a phrase is worn out and overused?
(a) Cliche.
(b) Sentimental.
(c) Trite.
(d) Ironic.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whose poetry and prose had Gardner made allusions to in the novel Grendel?

2. Gardner states that the effective writer leads the reader into a continuous what?

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

4. What author does Gardner remark has a bad habit of breaking the vivid and continuous dream by pouring on the rhetoric in Chapter 1?

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

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