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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What painter does Gardner remark in Chapter 1 never sold a painting in his life?
(a) Monet.
(b) Van Gogh.
(c) Matisse.
(d) Picasso.

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

4. In Chapter 1, Gardner writes that one is unable to write for everyone, "try to win the audience both of Saul Bellow and" whom?
(a) Anton Chekhov.
(b) Charles Dickens.
(c) James Joyce.
(d) Stephen King.

5. To whose poetry and prose had Gardner made allusions to in the novel Grendel?
(a) Percy Shelley.
(b) Lord Byron.
(c) William Blake.
(d) Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the book 1984?

2. What is one of the more reputedly good magazines that Gardner suggests publication in?

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

4. What publishing house did Gardner send Grendel to first?

5. What is one of the most important things for a young writer to have, according to Gardner in Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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