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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Faulkner.
(b) Hemingway.
(c) Salinger.
(d) Joyce.

2. What author does Gardner say was known to arrive at a party and sit for ten minutes or more staring at guests and not answering when people addressed him in Chapter1?
(a) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(b) Moliere.
(c) Anthony Trollope.
(d) James Joyce.

3. Which author does Gardner say has a style at parties to take to the floor at any cost, telling funny stories?
(a) Bernard Malamud.
(b) Stanley Elkin.
(c) Truman Capote.
(d) Joyce Carol Oates.

4. Gardner compares Melville's Moby Dick with what in Chapter 1?
(a) To Have and Have Not.
(b) Emma.
(c) Omoo.
(d) Anna Karanina.

5. What does Gardner say "breeds success" in Chapter 1?
(a) Dedication.
(b) Persistence.
(c) Connections.
(d) Success.

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

7. What did Garner always wear, according to Raymond Carver in the Forward?
(a) A gray fedora.
(b) A gray suit.
(c) A brown suit.
(d) A black suit.

8. Gardner suggests that the dazzling poetry of Mercutio's Queen Mab speech is not the same poetry that who speaks?
(a) Macbeth.
(b) Hamlet.
(c) Petrucio.
(d) Juliet.

9. Who is the author of All the King's Men?
(a) Ernest Hemingway.
(b) Robert Penn Warren.
(c) William Faulkner.
(d) Franz Kafka.

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

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

12. What does Gardner say that good fiction starts off in the reader's head?
(a) An addiction.
(b) A hunger for more.
(c) A nightmare.
(d) A continuous dream.

13. What anthology of fiction did Gardner publish with a colleague at Chico College?
(a) The Forms of Fiction.
(b) The Complete Works of the Gawain Poet.
(c) Dragon, Dragon, and Other Tales.
(d) The Life and Times of Chaucer.

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

15. What painter does Gardner remark in Chapter 1 never sold a painting in his life?
(a) Matisse.
(b) Monet.
(c) Picasso.
(d) Van Gogh.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Gardner's first wife's name?

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

3. Gardner claims he has been happy writing since the age of what?

4. Who wrote Bartelby the Scrivener?

5. Which author wrote A Tale of Two Cities?

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