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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is the author of All the King's Men?
2. Where had John Gardner taught before Chico State College?
3. Which philosopher maintained that nothing a writer writes means anything, "all the words are a lunatic blithering," since all language is by nature false and misleading?
4. Which author does Gardner state had "gazelle eyes" which dominated the room in Chapter 1?
5. In Chapter 1, Gardner states that "In a literary culture where the very notion of a 'masterpiece' is commonly thought" what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Gardner remark about theme in Chapter 1?
2. What essential things must an aspiring author understand in order to pursue writing?
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 say in Chapter 1 regarding "verbal sensitivity?" What does this term mean?
6. What does Gardner write of expressing characters' emotions in Chapter 1?
7. Who does Gardner refer to as the "best" novelists in Chapter 1? What lesson does he cite of them?
8. What state does good fiction elicit in the reader, according to Gardner?
9. What does Gardner suggest as ways to understand the psychology of characters unlike themselves?
10. What does Gardner write of Nabokov in Chapter 1?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What subjects are worthwhile or important for the author in gaining a well-rounded education? Why?
Essay Topic 2
What does Gardner write about the sense of perception and the ability of writers to create characters unlike themselves? What authors does he remark are excellent at this task?
Essay Topic 3
Describe the roles of plot, setting, and character in a novel. Which is the most important to Gardner? Why?
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