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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What teacher and poet is quoted as saying, "My object is to catch right now what will embarrass my students when they look at their poetry ten years from now"?
(a) Dave Smith.
(b) Allen Ginsberg.
(c) Robert Frost.
(d) Julia Roberts.

2. Sometimes the writer's desire to be original gets in the way or the need to be superhuman or to overcome what?
(a) Psychological wounds.
(b) His abilities.
(c) His competitive nature.
(d) His faith.

3. Where had John Gardner taught before Chico State College?
(a) University of Ohio.
(b) DePaul University.
(c) New York University.
(d) Oberlin College.

4. Gardner refers to boring, worn out language as being what kind of mask?
(a) Need-for-approval.
(b) Hamlet.
(c) Dramatic.
(d) Pollyanna.

5. What name does Gardner assign to the teenage daughter whose unknown father moves next door in Chapter 1?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Michelle.
(c) Wanda.
(d) Laura.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what older colleague did Gardner publish an anthology of fiction at Chico College?

2. Gardner states in Chapter 1 that Canterbury Tales is a disguised what?

3. 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?

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

5. As when learning to bicycle, writer should take one thing at a time: perfect a passage of description, then a passage of dialog, then move to the larger units of what?

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