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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. What is one of the most important things for a young writer to have, according to Gardner in Chapter 2?
(a) Religion.
(b) Family.
(c) Community.
(d) Ego.

2. Who wrote the book 1984?
(a) George Orwell.
(b) Thomas Pynchon.
(c) J. D. Salinger.
(d) Ray Bradbury.

3. Gardner suggests the young writer get a first-rate freshman composition book such as An American Rhetoric by whom?
(a) Michael A. Morris.
(b) W. W. Watt.
(c) Stuart Waterman.
(d) James A. Richards.

4. Who wrote Divine Comedy?
(a) Dante.
(b) Chekhov.
(c) Bloom.
(d) Joyce.

5. Who wrote Finnegan's Wake?
(a) Nabokov.
(b) Joyce.
(c) Robbe-Grillet.
(d) Flaubert.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gardner suggests that the dazzling poetry of Mercutio's Queen Mab speech is not the same poetry that who speaks?

2. What word does Gardner use to describe that teaching which tends to emphasize theme and design over feeling and authentic narrative?

3. The main commitment of famous writers as teachers is what?

4. Gardner writes in Chapter 2 that in a bad workshop, the teacher allows or even encourages what?

5. What is, according to Gardner, the one quality in fiction that cannot be faked?

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