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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. Who is the author of All the King's Men?
(a) Franz Kafka.
(b) William Faulkner.
(c) Ernest Hemingway.
(d) Robert Penn Warren.
2. 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?
(a) "Definitely no."
(b) "God only knows."
(c) "You'll know in time."
(d) "Definitely yet."
3. What author does Gardner say has a deep misanthropic mistrust in Chapter 1?
(a) Steinbeck.
(b) Bedlow.
(c) Flaubert.
(d) Dickens.
4. Who wrote Finnegan's Wake?
(a) Flaubert.
(b) Joyce.
(c) Robbe-Grillet.
(d) Nabokov.
5. What year did Raymond Carver move to Chico, California?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1958.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1962.
Short Answer Questions
1. What anthology of fiction did Gardner publish with a colleague at Chico College?
2. In Chapter 1, Gardner states that "In a literary culture where the very notion of a 'masterpiece' is commonly thought" what?
3. In what novel does Levin propose to Kitty, as cited in Chapter 1?
4. What story of Robert Penn Warren's did Raymond Carver read in Gardner's class at Chico State College?
5. Where did Raymond Carver move to Chico, California from?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Gardner write of Nabokov in Chapter 1?
2. What hypothetical situation does Gardner uses as an example of plot 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 remark about theme in Chapter 1?
6. What does Gardner say of "recognizing the significant" in Chapter 1?
7. What authors does Gardner use to illustrate language and character in Chapter 1?
8. What does Gardner suggest as ways to understand the psychology of characters unlike themselves?
9. What does Gardner assert of the author learning character through television in Chapter 1?
10. What does Gardner say of writers with "bad taste" in language in Chapter 1?
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