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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Gardner states that the "magic moment" of a writer has nothing to do with theme or what?
(a) Symbolism.
(b) Action.
(c) Character.
(d) Plot.

2. Who was the first editor to take interest in Gardner's work?
(a) Bob Gottlieb.
(b) Gerald Kimble.
(c) Jack Smith.
(d) James Growder.

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

4. What word does Gardner use to mean a phrase is worn out and overused?
(a) Ironic.
(b) Cliche.
(c) Sentimental.
(d) Trite.

5. Gardner writes in Chapter 1 that when the central character is a victim there is no what?
(a) Terror.
(b) Suspense.
(c) Action.
(d) Empathy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Gardner claim is helpful, if it can be kept in partial control, to keep the novelist driven?

3. Gardner cites a passage from which of his novels in discussing the poem in Chapter 4?

4. Sometimes the writer's desire to be original gets in the way or the need to be superhuman or to overcome what?

5. Who wrote Finnegan's Wake?

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