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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Gardner states that the effective writer leads the reader into a continuous what?
(a) Characterization.
(b) Dream.
(c) Trance.
(d) Story line.

2. The two things that keep the common reader turning the pages, according to Gardner are story or what?
(a) Mood.
(b) Theme.
(c) Argument.
(d) Character.

3. What book was Gardner writing when he remembered the altered sense coming over him while in the last chapter?
(a) The Resurrection.
(b) October Light.
(c) Nickel Mountain.
(d) Grendel.

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

5. Who wrote Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy?
(a) Theodore Dreiser.
(b) William Faulkner.
(c) Raymond Carver.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

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

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

8. What author does Gardner remark has a bad habit of breaking the vivid and continuous dream by pouring on the rhetoric in Chapter 1?
(a) Hemingway.
(b) Salinger.
(c) Joyce.
(d) Faulkner.

9. What author does Gardner say has a deep misanthropic mistrust in Chapter 1?
(a) Bedlow.
(b) Dickens.
(c) Flaubert.
(d) Steinbeck.

10. Where did Raymond Carver move to Chico, California from?
(a) Connecticut.
(b) Arkansas.
(c) Washington.
(d) Wyoming.

11. Which author wrote A Tale of Two Cities?
(a) Melville.
(b) Bedlow.
(c) Steinbeck.
(d) Dickens.

12. Who developed the style of the "epiphany story" in The Dubliners?
(a) Joyce.
(b) McKinley.
(c) Conrad.
(d) Beckett.

13. Gardner suggests the young writer get a first-rate freshman composition book such as An American Rhetoric by whom?
(a) Stuart Waterman.
(b) James A. Richards.
(c) W. W. Watt.
(d) Michael A. Morris.

14. What psychologist suggests that Jack and the Beanstalk is about penis envy?
(a) Madison Thomas.
(b) Sigmund Freud.
(c) Bruno Bettelheim.
(d) Carl Jung.

15. Which sci-fi author wrote A Canticle for Liebowitz?
(a) Jack Humphries.
(b) Kurt Vonnegut.
(c) Walter M. Miller, Jr.
(d) J.D. Salinger.

Short Answer Questions

1. What magazine does Gardner suggest for good literary work in Chapter 1?

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

3. What is the honest answer to the question most young writer's ask of "Do I have what it takes to be a writer?" according to Gardner?

4. What year did Raymond Carver move to Chico, California?

5. Gardner writes in Chapter 1 that when the central character is a victim there is no what?

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