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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 does Gardner remark has a bad habit of breaking the vivid and continuous dream by pouring on the rhetoric in Chapter 1?
(a) Joyce.
(b) Hemingway.
(c) Salinger.
(d) Faulkner.

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

3. Where did Raymond Carver move to Chico, California from?
(a) Washington.
(b) Connecticut.
(c) Wyoming.
(d) Arkansas.

4. What magazine does Gardner suggest for good literary work in Chapter 1?
(a) The New Yorker.
(b) The Reader's Digest.
(c) The Londoner.
(d) The London Book Review.

5. Gardner states in Chapter 2, "If there are objective laws of ______, not all of theme apply in every instance, and none of them finally have to do with purpose."
(a) Opinion.
(b) Aesthetics.
(c) Art.
(d) Writing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year did Raymond Carver move to Chico, California?

2. What is the honest answer to the question most young writer's ask of "Do I have what it takes to be a writer?" according to Gardner?

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

4. Of whose writing does Gardner say that no reader can doubt the impulse to capture real life, "the special quality of country-Welsh craziness"?

5. Who is one of the writers Gardner notes in Chapter 1 as having both a fine ear for language and also a fascination with the materials?

(see the answer key)

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