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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. Of what author does Gardner say his heroes are clown-heroes knocked around by the universe?
(a) James.
(b) Kafka.
(c) Odets.
(d) Hemingway.

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

3. What is one of the most important things for a young writer to have, according to Gardner in Chapter 2?
(a) Family.
(b) Community.
(c) Religion.
(d) Ego.

4. 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) Dylan Thomas.
(b) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(c) John Updike.
(d) William Faulkner.

5. Gardner claims he has been happy writing since the age of what?
(a) 12.
(b) 6.
(c) 16.
(d) 8.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the man who moves next door to his teenage daughter in Gardner's hypothetical story in Chapter 1?

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

3. Gardner states in Chapter 2 that the first value of a writer's workshop is that it makes the young writer feel not abnormal but what?

4. Gardner states that the effective writer leads the reader into a continuous what?

5. What author of experimental fiction teaches at Rice?

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