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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Publication and Survival.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Gardner states in Chapter 1 that Canterbury Tales is a disguised what?
(a) Love poem.
(b) War poem.
(c) Shakespearean ode.
(d) Sermon.

3. What kind of intelligence does Gardner say is important to the writer in Chapter 1?
(a) Storyteller's.
(b) Philosophical.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Psychological.

4. Of whose writing does Gardner say that no reader can doubt the impulse to capture real life, "the special quality of country-Welsh craziness"?
(a) John Updike.
(b) Samuel Beckett.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Dylan Thomas.

5. Which author does Gardner say has a style at parties to take to the floor at any cost, telling funny stories?
(a) Stanley Elkin.
(b) Joyce Carol Oates.
(c) Bernard Malamud.
(d) Truman Capote.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who recommended Gardner at New American Library?

2. Gardner suggests that the dazzling poetry of Mercutio's Queen Mab speech is not the same poetry that who speaks?

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

4. Who was the first editor to take interest in Gardner's work?

5. Gardner notes in Chapter 1 that all writing requires some measure of a ____ state.

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