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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. Who wrote Bartelby the Scrivener?
(a) James Joyce.
(b) Ernest Hemingway.
(c) Thomas Mann.
(d) Herman Melville.

2. Which sci-fi author wrote A Canticle for Liebowitz?
(a) Kurt Vonnegut.
(b) Jack Humphries.
(c) Walter M. Miller, Jr.
(d) J.D. Salinger.

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

4. In Chapter 2, Gardner writes that writing, "like the study of classical piano, is not practical but _____."
(a) Aristocratic.
(b) Impulsive.
(c) Superfluous.
(d) Immediate.

5. What experimental writer does Gardner mention having been moved and delighted by in Chapter 2?
(a) Samuel Beckett.
(b) James Joyce.
(c) Tom Robbins.
(d) William Glass.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which writer, although thought of as a solitary genius, spent time working in close community with Ford Maddox Ford?

2. What kind of intelligence does Gardner say is important to the writer in Chapter 1?

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

4. What author does Gardner say has a deep misanthropic mistrust in Chapter 1?

5. Gardner states in Chapter 2, "If there are objective laws of ______, not all of theme apply in every instance, and none of them finally have to do with purpose."

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