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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. Gardner writes in Chapter 1 that if one studies with whom, does he learn that Shakespeare is better than Mickey Spillane?
(a) Dr. Michael Mortenson.
(b) Dr. Stanley Fish.
(c) Dr. Andrew Dryd.
(d) Dr. Martin Meyer.

2. Who is the author of Crime and Punishment?
(a) Joyce.
(b) Nabokov.
(c) Flannagan.
(d) Dostoevsky.

3. Gardner compares the first thrill of achievement of the writer to that of an oboist or what?
(a) Actor.
(b) Painter.
(c) Pianist.
(d) Gambler.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What author does Gardner say has a deep misanthropic mistrust in Chapter 1?

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

4. Gardner claims he has been happy writing since the age of what?

5. What story of Robert Penn Warren's did Raymond Carver read in Gardner's class at Chico State College?

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