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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, "If there are objective laws of ______, not all of theme apply in every instance, and none of them finally have to do with purpose."
(a) Writing.
(b) Art.
(c) Opinion.
(d) Aesthetics.

2. Hypersensitivity, stubbornness, and what are traits that make one want to be a writer and can also get in the way?
(a) Irritability.
(b) Instability.
(c) Egotism.
(d) Despair.

3. Gardner notes in Chapter 3 that all second-rate stories tend to do what?
(a) Get published.
(b) Get acclaim.
(c) Sound alike.
(d) Get rejected.

4. What story of Robert Penn Warren's did Raymond Carver read in Gardner's class at Chico State College?
(a) "Blackberry Winter."
(b) "Last of the Mohicans."
(c) "Ulysses."
(d) "To Have and Have Not."

5. Gardner calls the ____ of language a trifle in Chapter 4.
(a) Meaning.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Deliberating.
(d) Recalcitrance.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sometimes when stuck, one should work on something else, such as what?

2. Who is one of the writers Gardner notes in Chapter 1 as having both a fine ear for language and also a fascination with the materials?

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

4. Which philosopher maintained that nothing a writer writes means anything, "all the words are a lunatic blithering," since all language is by nature false and misleading?

5. There is no wrong reason to write and almost no wrong what?

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