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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 author does Gardner remark has a persistent mean streak in his writing?
(a) Salinger.
(b) Kerouac.
(c) Joyce.
(d) Hemingway.

2. Where had John Gardner taught before Chico State College?
(a) University of Ohio.
(b) Oberlin College.
(c) DePaul University.
(d) New York University.

3. What teacher and poet is quoted as saying, "My object is to catch right now what will embarrass my students when they look at their poetry ten years from now"?
(a) Allen Ginsberg.
(b) Robert Frost.
(c) Dave Smith.
(d) Julia Roberts.

4. Gardner writes in Chapter 2 that in a bad workshop, the teacher takes the place of the student's what?
(a) Internal critic.
(b) Ability to think.
(c) Assimilation.
(d) Critical imagination.

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

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. In the world of grants, Gardner writes in Chapter 2, who has a better chance than other artists?

3. What is the honest answer to the question most young writer's ask of "Do I have what it takes to be a writer?" according to Gardner?

4. Gardner notes in Chapter 1 that Mercutio's madness is fantastic and what?

5. Gardner compares Melville's Moby Dick with what in Chapter 1?

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