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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What gang leader and barn burner does Gardner cite in his novel excerpt in Chapter 4?
(a) Ethan Allen.
(b) Buffalo Bill.
(c) Billy the Kid.
(d) Jesse James.

2. What author does Gardner remark has a persistent mean streak in his writing?
(a) Hemingway.
(b) Joyce.
(c) Kerouac.
(d) Salinger.

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

4. What author of Over the Edge does Gardner cite in Chapter 1?
(a) James Joyce.
(b) Kurt Vonnegut.
(c) Franz Kafka.
(d) Harlan Ellison.

5. Gardner writes of his poem in Chapter 4 as one which began about a what?
(a) Horse.
(b) Tree.
(c) Fence.
(d) Flower.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Gardner notes that handwriting, like speech, is full of what?

3. Who does Gardner suggest writing to for information on reliable agents?

4. In Chapter 1, Gardner writes that one is unable to write for everyone, "try to win the audience both of Saul Bellow and" whom?

5. What name does Gardner assign to the teenage daughter whose unknown father moves next door in Chapter 1?

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