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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 writes in Chapter 3, "Young writers want to ____ because they're unsure of themselves."
(a) Study.
(b) Publish.
(c) Go to school.
(d) Read.

2. In Chapter 2, Gardner notes that "The wide range of opinion in a class affords increases the writer's chance of getting a _____."
(a) Opinion.
(b) True response.
(c) Fair hearing.
(d) Full listening.

3. Who wrote the book 1984?
(a) Thomas Pynchon.
(b) George Orwell.
(c) Ray Bradbury.
(d) J. D. Salinger.

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

5. One of the favorite survival jobs of writers has in recent years been what?
(a) Office clerks.
(b) College teaching.
(c) High school teaching.
(d) Night auditing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose disguise in Jane Eyre does Gardner comment on as surprising in Chapter 1?

2. When inhibitions end in writer's block, it is a failure of what?

3. Language is not _____ and often drives the writer to meanings that he does not know are coming.

4. What masterpiece of James Joyce does Gardner suggest typing out for language growth in Chapter 1?

5. Gardner states that writers must recognize what element of their task and break down processes into workable segments?

(see the answer key)

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