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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 responded to the question of why she wrote fiction, "Because I'm good at it"?
(a) Joyce Carol Oates.
(b) Flannery O'Connor.
(c) Sylvia Plath.
(d) Edith Wharton.

2. The two things that keep the common reader turning the pages, according to Gardner are story or what?
(a) Theme.
(b) Character.
(c) Argument.
(d) Mood.

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

4. Which author wrote A Tale of Two Cities?
(a) Melville.
(b) Bedlow.
(c) Steinbeck.
(d) Dickens.

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) True response.
(b) Full listening.
(c) Fair hearing.
(d) Opinion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gardner writes in Chapter 2 that in the workshop he is teaching he encountered a story which he hopes to publish titled what?

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

3. Who developed the style of the "epiphany story" in The Dubliners?

4. Where is one of the oldest and best known writing workshops?

5. Who is the author of Crime and Punishment?

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