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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. Where did Raymond Carver move to Chico, California from?
(a) Connecticut.
(b) Arkansas.
(c) Wyoming.
(d) Washington.

2. Who is one of the writers Gardner notes in Chapter 1 as having both a fine ear for language and also a fascination with the materials?
(a) Joyce.
(b) Hemingway.
(c) Proust.
(d) Fitzgerald.

3. Of which writer does Gardner say, "the brilliant language with which he describes a minor character cannot help but suggest that the words he chooses are more important to him than the token secretary behind the desk"?
(a) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(b) Dylan Thomas.
(c) William Faulkner.
(d) John Updike.

4. What psychologist suggests that Jack and the Beanstalk is about penis envy?
(a) Bruno Bettelheim.
(b) Carl Jung.
(c) Madison Thomas.
(d) Sigmund Freud.

5. Which author went to Paris and studied with one of the shrewdest writers, Gertrude Stein?
(a) Ernest Hemingway.
(b) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(c) Henry James.
(d) Stephen Crane.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, Gardner writes that writing, "like the study of classical piano, is not practical but _____."

2. What year did Raymond Carver move to Chico, California?

3. What literary magazine does Gardner publish?

4. What is one of the philosophers who has maintained that words inevitably distance us from the brute existence, according to Gardner in Chapter 1?

5. In Chapter 2, Gardner notes that "The wide range of opinion in a class affords increases the writer's chance of getting a _____."

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