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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Faith.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the author of The Turn of the Screw?
(a) Dylan Thomas.
(b) James Joyce.
(c) Henry James.
(d) Henry Melville.

2. Gardner cites a passage from which of his novels in discussing the poem in Chapter 4?
(a) The King's Indian.
(b) October Light.
(c) Grendel.
(d) In the Suicide Mountains.

3. Young novelists who are blocked should write what to get practice in the basic forms of storytelling?
(a) Memoirs.
(b) Poems.
(c) Science fiction.
(d) Short stories.

4. 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) Aesthetics.
(b) Writing.
(c) Art.
(d) Opinion.

5. Faith comes partly from the support of friends, partly from the writer's "selfless love of his art," and partly from reading favorite writers to see how they have done what?
(a) Managed characters.
(b) Played with words.
(c) Revised their text.
(d) Gotten their own faith.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In Chapter 2, Gardner notes that "The wide range of opinion in a class affords increases the writer's chance of getting a _____."

3. Gardner states in Chapter 2 that an individual style is developed as much by resistance as by what?

4. Hypersensitivity, stubbornness, and what are traits that make one want to be a writer and can also get in the way?

5. A writer must always start with a careful what?

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