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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 is the name of the man who moves next door to his teenage daughter in Gardner's hypothetical story in Chapter 1?
(a) Frank.
(b) James.
(c) Bob.
(d) Bill.

2. Gardner cites a passage from which of his novels in discussing the poem in Chapter 4?
(a) In the Suicide Mountains.
(b) Grendel.
(c) The King's Indian.
(d) October Light.

3. What is one of the philosophers who has maintained that words inevitably distance us from the brute existence, according to Gardner in Chapter 1?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Kierkegaard.
(c) Plato.
(d) Nietzsche.

4. Whose disguise in Jane Eyre does Gardner comment on as surprising in Chapter 1?
(a) Mr. Darby.
(b) Mr. Rochester.
(c) Mr. Bryg.
(d) Mr. Wolverton.

5. Gardner states in Chapter 3 that one should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of whom?
(a) Poets.
(b) Teachers.
(c) Writers.
(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 compares Melville's Moby Dick with what in Chapter 1?

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

4. Which writing teacher and author is famous for the energy and relative success with which he pushes his students' work at appropriate editors?

5. What author of experimental fiction teaches at Rice?

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