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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. In Chapter 1, Gardner states that "In a literary culture where the very notion of a 'masterpiece' is commonly thought" what?
(a) Impossible.
(b) Barbaric.
(c) Immature.
(d) Dangerous.

2. Who is one of the writers Gardner notes in Chapter 1 as having both a fine ear for language and also a fascination with the materials?
(a) Proust.
(b) Joyce.
(c) Fitzgerald.
(d) Hemingway.

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

4. In Chapter 2, Gardner states, "A writer does not become better by being ____."
(a) Beaten.
(b) Adored.
(c) Pandered to.
(d) Scorned.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose disguise in Jane Eyre does Gardner comment on as surprising in Chapter 1?

2. Gardner suggests the young writer get a first-rate freshman composition book such as An American Rhetoric by whom?

3. What is one of the only programs for funding for writers on the governmental level?

4. Gardner states that the effective writer leads the reader into a continuous what?

5. What word does Gardner use to mean a phrase is worn out and overused?

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