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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 does Gardner say brings together groups of young writers who, even in the absence of superb teachers, can be of help to one another?
(a) Writers' workshops.
(b) Colleges.
(c) Graduate programs.
(d) Seminars.

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

3. What is the name of the writer's conference where Gardner has frequently worked with writing assistants?
(a) Last Dinner.
(b) Silver Mountain.
(c) Bread Loaf.
(d) Peabody.

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

5. 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) Dave Smith.
(b) Allen Ginsberg.
(c) Robert Frost.
(d) Julia Roberts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What author does Gardner remark has a bad habit of breaking the vivid and continuous dream by pouring on the rhetoric in Chapter 1?

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

3. What other author did Herman Melville have among his circle of friends?

4. Who is the author of Crime and Punishment?

5. Who is the author of Death in Venice?

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