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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. Which is one of the great graduate programs for writers that Gardner refers to in Chapter 2?
(a) Carnegie Mellon.
(b) NYU.
(c) Oxford.
(d) Stanford.

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

3. Who wrote Divine Comedy?
(a) Bloom.
(b) Chekhov.
(c) Dante.
(d) Joyce.

4. What is the name of the man who moves next door to his teenage daughter in Gardner's hypothetical story in Chapter 1?
(a) Bob.
(b) James.
(c) Bill.
(d) Frank.

5. Where is one of the oldest and best known writing workshops?
(a) New Hampshire.
(b) Iowa.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) Kansas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Gardner's first wife's name?

2. Where does Gardner teach workshops, as he claims it has a good program for fiction?

3. In Chapter 2, Gardner writes that the "true young novelist has the stamina, patience, and single-mindedness of a" what?

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

5. Gardner writes in Chapter 2 that in a bad workshop, the teacher allows or even encourages what?

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