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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. In Chapter 2, Gardner writes that the "true young novelist has the stamina, patience, and single-mindedness of a" what?
(a) Mule.
(b) Mother.
(c) Elephant.
(d) Draft horse.

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

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

4. What does Gardner state in Chapter 1 that we call a writer who cares more for language than the other elements of fiction?
(a) Mannered.
(b) Stylized.
(c) Tedious.
(d) Bad.

5. What author does Gardner say has a deep misanthropic mistrust in Chapter 1?
(a) Flaubert.
(b) Steinbeck.
(c) Dickens.
(d) Bedlow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What literary magazine does Gardner publish?

2. In Chapter 1, Gardner states that "In a literary culture where the very notion of a 'masterpiece' is commonly thought" what?

3. In Chapter 1, Gardner writes that one is unable to write for everyone, "try to win the audience both of Saul Bellow and" whom?

4. What does Gardner say that good fiction starts off in the reader's head?

5. What anthology of fiction did Gardner publish with a colleague at Chico College?

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