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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 2, Gardner notes that "The wide range of opinion in a class affords increases the writer's chance of getting a _____."
(a) Opinion.
(b) Full listening.
(c) Fair hearing.
(d) True response.

2. Which title does Raymond Carver say is the only one he recalls of John Gardner's manuscripts in the Forward?
(a) The Life and Times of Chaucer.
(b) The King's Indian.
(c) Nickel Mountain.
(d) Grendel.

3. What anthology of fiction did Gardner publish with a colleague at Chico College?
(a) The Complete Works of the Gawain Poet.
(b) Dragon, Dragon, and Other Tales.
(c) The Life and Times of Chaucer.
(d) The Forms of Fiction.

4. What book was Gardner writing when he remembered the altered sense coming over him while in the last chapter?
(a) Nickel Mountain.
(b) The Resurrection.
(c) October Light.
(d) Grendel.

5. What experimental writer does Gardner mention having been moved and delighted by in Chapter 2?
(a) James Joyce.
(b) William Glass.
(c) Tom Robbins.
(d) Samuel Beckett.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of whose writing does Gardner say that no reader can doubt the impulse to capture real life, "the special quality of country-Welsh craziness"?

2. What kind of intelligence does Gardner say is important to the writer in Chapter 1?

3. What psychologist suggests that Jack and the Beanstalk is about penis envy?

4. What does Gardner say "breeds success" in Chapter 1?

5. What did Garner always wear, according to Raymond Carver in the Forward?

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