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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 does Gardner compare to the floors and structural supports in a fine old mansion in Chapter 1?
2. Gardner states that the effective writer leads the reader into a continuous what?
3. Gardner refers to boring, worn out language as being what kind of mask?
4. What author of Over the Edge does Gardner cite in Chapter 1?
5. 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?
Short Essay Questions
1. What state does good fiction elicit in the reader, according to Gardner?
2. How does Gardner describe traditional plot, victim stories, and "epiphany stories?"
3. What does Gardner say of "recognizing the significant" in Chapter 1?
4. How does the young author learn technique through reading others?
5. What does Gardner write of Nabokov in Chapter 1?
6. What hypothetical situation does Gardner uses as an example of plot in Chapter 1?
7. What does Gardner relate about the "author's character" in Chapter 1? How does he describe "special intelligence?"
8. In Chapter 1, what does Gardner say the most common question of the aspiring writer is to him? What is the response?
9. What is the second indicator of talent that Gardner discusses in Chapter 1? What author does he cite in this?
10. What does Gardner write of expressing characters' emotions in Chapter 1?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe the author's keen sense of observation. Why is this necessary? How does it affect the author?
Essay Topic 2
Describe the roles of plot, setting, and character in a novel. Which is the most important to Gardner? Why?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the differences between Melville's Onoo and Moby Dick. How does Gardner illustrate this in the text?
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