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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. In what novel does Levin propose to Kitty, as cited in Chapter 1?
2. What author does Gardner remark has a bad habit of breaking the vivid and continuous dream by pouring on the rhetoric in Chapter 1?
3. Gardner notes in Chapter 1 that Mercutio's madness is fantastic and what?
4. In Chapter 1, Gardner states that "In a literary culture where the very notion of a 'masterpiece' is commonly thought" what?
5. Who wrote Bartelby the Scrivener?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Gardner write about showy language in Chapter 1?
2. What does Gardner remark of the author's sense of observation in Chapter 1?
3. In Chapter 1, what does Gardner say the most common question of the aspiring writer is to him? What is the response?
4. What is the "moronic setup" that Gardner relates in Chapter 1?
5. What does Gardner write of expressing characters' emotions in Chapter 1?
6. How does the young author learn technique through reading others?
7. What hypothetical situation does Gardner uses as an example of plot in Chapter 1?
8. What authors does Gardner use to illustrate language and character in Chapter 1?
9. What does Gardner suggest as ways to understand the psychology of characters unlike themselves?
10. Who does Gardner refer to as the "best" novelists in Chapter 1? What lesson does he cite of them?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the career of Raymond Carver. How did he come to study with John Gardner? What does he relate of his experiences as Gardner's student?
Essay Topic 2
What does Gardner mean in Chapter 1 when he refers to "verbal sensitivity"? What does this phrase mean and not mean to the author?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss what literary dynasties are. What are some examples of literary dynasties? How does an author go about finding his own community?
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