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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which author wrote A Tale of Two Cities?
(a) Melville.
(b) Steinbeck.
(c) Bedlow.
(d) Dickens.
2. Who is the author of Crime and Punishment?
(a) Flannagan.
(b) Dostoevsky.
(c) Joyce.
(d) Nabokov.
3. Whose disguise in Jane Eyre does Gardner comment on as surprising in Chapter 1?
(a) Mr. Rochester.
(b) Mr. Wolverton.
(c) Mr. Darby.
(d) Mr. Bryg.
4. What painter does Gardner remark in Chapter 1 never sold a painting in his life?
(a) Picasso.
(b) Van Gogh.
(c) Matisse.
(d) Monet.
5. What does Gardner say we call a writer who has less feeling for his characters than we feel they deserve?
(a) Tedious.
(b) Frigid.
(c) Mannered.
(d) Stylized.
Short Answer Questions
1. 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?
2. What book was Gardner writing when he remembered the altered sense coming over him while in the last chapter?
3. What does Gardner compare to the floors and structural supports in a fine old mansion in Chapter 1?
4. What did Garner always wear, according to Raymond Carver in the Forward?
5. What does Gardner claim is helpful, if it can be kept in partial control, to keep the novelist driven?
Short Essay Questions
1. What hypothetical situation does Gardner uses as an example of plot in Chapter 1?
2. What does Gardner write about showy language in Chapter 1?
3. What does Gardner remark of the author's sense of observation in Chapter 1?
4. How does Gardner describe traditional plot, victim stories, and "epiphany stories?"
5. What does Gardner relate about the "author's character" in Chapter 1? How does he describe "special intelligence?"
6. What essential things must an aspiring author understand in order to pursue writing?
7. Who does Gardner refer to as the "best" novelists in Chapter 1? What lesson does he cite of them?
8. How does the young author learn technique through reading others?
9. Where did Gardner learn his method of writing?
10. What is the second indicator of talent that Gardner discusses in Chapter 1? What author does he cite in this?
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