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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. What is, according to Gardner, the one quality in fiction that cannot be faked?
2. What was Gardner's first wife's name?
3. What author of Over the Edge does Gardner cite in Chapter 1?
4. 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?
5. Who wrote Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Gardner say in Chapter 1 regarding "verbal sensitivity?" What does this term mean?
2. Who does Gardner refer to as the "best" novelists in Chapter 1? What lesson does he cite of them?
3. What authors does Gardner use to illustrate language and character in Chapter 1?
4. What hypothetical situation does Gardner uses as an example of plot in Chapter 1?
5. What does Gardner relate about the "author's character" in Chapter 1? How does he describe "special intelligence?"
6. What does Gardner write of Nabokov in Chapter 1?
7. What state does good fiction elicit in the reader, according to Gardner?
8. What does Gardner say of writers with "bad taste" in language in Chapter 1?
9. How does Gardner explain characterization and story through his hypothetical story in Chapter 1?
10. What does Gardner assert of the author learning character through television in Chapter 1?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Discuss what Gardner refers to as "special intelligence" in the writer. How does Gardner's definition of intelligence differ from the dictionary definition?
Essay Topic 3
Describe what Gardner refers to as the "moments of magic" in an author's work. How does one recognize these when reading? What examples does Gardner cite?
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