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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. Gardner notes in Chapter 1 that all writing requires some measure of a ____ state.
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?
3. Who wrote Divine Comedy?
4. Who is the author of Death in Venice?
5. What is the name of the man who moves next door to his teenage daughter in Gardner's hypothetical story in Chapter 1?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Gardner explain characterization and story through his hypothetical story in Chapter 1?
2. What does Gardner suggest as ways to understand the psychology of characters unlike themselves?
3. What does Gardner remark of the author's sense of observation in Chapter 1?
4. What hypothetical situation does Gardner uses as an example of plot in Chapter 1?
5. What does Gardner remark about theme in Chapter 1?
6. How does Gardner define "setting," "plot," and "theme" in Chapter 1?
7. What state does good fiction elicit in the reader, according to Gardner?
8. Where did Gardner learn his method of writing?
9. In Chapter 1, what does Gardner say the most common question of the aspiring writer is to him? What is the response?
10. What essential things must an aspiring author understand in order to pursue writing?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the differences between Melville's Onoo and Moby Dick. How does Gardner illustrate this in the text?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the exceptions that Gardner makes in reference to James Joyce, Franz Kafka, and Samuel Beckett. What in their writing differs from the traditional and still "works"?
Essay Topic 3
Describe the biographical history of John Gardner. How did he come to writing? What was his childhood like? Where did he study?
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