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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Faith.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Virtuous.
(b) Accepted.
(c) Smart.
(d) Enlightened.

2. Who is the author of Crime and Punishment?
(a) Flannagan.
(b) Nabokov.
(c) Joyce.
(d) Dostoevsky.

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

4. When inhibitions end in writer's block, it is a failure of what?
(a) Dexterity.
(b) Will.
(c) Ability.
(d) Talent.

5. Gardner writes in Chapter 2 that in the workshop he is teaching he encountered a story which he hopes to publish titled what?
(a) "Exit."
(b) "Thoughts."
(c) "Jason."
(d) "Tomorrow."

Short Answer Questions

1. The two things that keep the common reader turning the pages, according to Gardner are story or what?

2. Who wrote the book 1984?

3. Fiction must begin with a rough sketch of characters and behaviors and then is gradually what?

4. What author once remarked "the best way to become a writer is to go off and write"?

5. In Chapter 1, Gardner states that "In a literary culture where the very notion of a 'masterpiece' is commonly thought" what?

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