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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 1 that when the central character is a victim there is no what?
(a) Terror.
(b) Empathy.
(c) Suspense.
(d) Action.

2. Which title does Raymond Carver say is the only one he recalls of John Gardner's manuscripts in the Forward?
(a) Grendel.
(b) The Life and Times of Chaucer.
(c) The King's Indian.
(d) Nickel Mountain.

3. The poem of Gardner's which he uses as an example in Chapter 4 begins, "Lovely, spooky, dark blue Gentian, / Inner walls like speckled _____."
(a) Apocalypse.
(b) Snakeskin.
(c) Attention.
(d) Mention.

4. What was Gardner's first wife's name?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Joan.
(c) Nora.
(d) Emily.

5. In Chapter 2, what does Gardner say the world has far more than it needs?
(a) Authors.
(b) Writing teachers.
(c) Publishers.
(d) Editors.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gardner writes in Chapter 1 that if one studies with whom, does he learn that Shakespeare is better than Mickey Spillane?

2. Gardner states that in the works of Shakespeare, language always serves character and what?

3. What author does Gardner remark has a bad habit of breaking the vivid and continuous dream by pouring on the rhetoric in Chapter 1?

4. Gardner writes that one editor insisted on changing his punctuation based on some rule he learned where?

5. What is the title of Chapter 3?

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