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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. Gardner compares Melville's Moby Dick with what in Chapter 1?
(a) To Have and Have Not.
(b) Emma.
(c) Omoo.
(d) Anna Karanina.
2. Which sci-fi author wrote A Canticle for Liebowitz?
(a) Kurt Vonnegut.
(b) Jack Humphries.
(c) J.D. Salinger.
(d) Walter M. Miller, Jr.
3. In what novel does Levin propose to Kitty, as cited in Chapter 1?
(a) Nicholas Nickleby.
(b) Crime and Punishment.
(c) Anna Karenina.
(d) Emma.
4. Of which writer does Gardner say, "the brilliant language with which he describes a minor character cannot help but suggest that the words he chooses are more important to him than the token secretary behind the desk"?
(a) William Faulkner.
(b) John Updike.
(c) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(d) Dylan Thomas.
5. What author of Over the Edge does Gardner cite in Chapter 1?
(a) Franz Kafka.
(b) Harlan Ellison.
(c) Kurt Vonnegut.
(d) James Joyce.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Gardner say we call a writer who has less feeling for his characters than we feel they deserve?
2. What does Gardner say "breeds success" in Chapter 1?
3. What magazine does Gardner suggest for good literary work in Chapter 1?
4. Gardner suggests that the dazzling poetry of Mercutio's Queen Mab speech is not the same poetry that who speaks?
5. Gardner refers to boring, worn out language as being what kind of mask?
Short Essay Questions
1. What authors does Gardner use to illustrate language and character in Chapter 1?
2. How does the young author learn technique through reading others?
3. What is the second indicator of talent that Gardner discusses in Chapter 1? What author does he cite in this?
4. What state does good fiction elicit in the reader, according to Gardner?
5. What does Gardner relate about the "author's character" in Chapter 1? How does he describe "special intelligence?"
6. Who does Gardner refer to as the "best" novelists in Chapter 1? What lesson does he cite of them?
7. What does Gardner assert of the author learning character through television in Chapter 1?
8. How does Gardner define "setting," "plot," and "theme" in Chapter 1?
9. What hypothetical situation does Gardner uses as an example of plot in Chapter 1?
10. What does Gardner suggest as ways to understand the psychology of characters unlike themselves?
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