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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 did Garner always wear, according to Raymond Carver in the Forward?
(a) A black suit.
(b) A gray suit.
(c) A brown suit.
(d) A gray fedora.

2. Which author went to Paris and studied with one of the shrewdest writers, Gertrude Stein?
(a) Ernest Hemingway.
(b) Stephen Crane.
(c) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(d) Henry James.

3. Who developed the style of the "epiphany story" in The Dubliners?
(a) Joyce.
(b) McKinley.
(c) Beckett.
(d) Conrad.

4. The study of what can give the young writer a clear sense of why our age is so troubled?
(a) Drama.
(b) English.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Philology.

5. In Chapter 2, Gardner notes that "The wide range of opinion in a class affords increases the writer's chance of getting a _____."
(a) Full listening.
(b) Fair hearing.
(c) True response.
(d) Opinion.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. What is the first thing that Gardner states a writer needs to have in Chapter 1?

5. Gardner claims he has been happy writing since the age of what?

(see the answer key)

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