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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. Which author does Gardner state had "gazelle eyes" which dominated the room in Chapter 1?
2. What was Gardner's first wife's name?
3. What does Gardner compare to the floors and structural supports in a fine old mansion in Chapter 1?
4. Of whose writing does Gardner say that no reader can doubt the impulse to capture real life, "the special quality of country-Welsh craziness"?
5. What year did Raymond Carver move to Chico, California?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Gardner write about showy language in Chapter 1?
2. What does Gardner suggest as ways to understand the psychology of characters unlike themselves?
3. What hypothetical situation does Gardner uses as an example of plot in Chapter 1?
4. How does Gardner explain characterization and story through his hypothetical story in Chapter 1?
5. Who does Gardner refer to as the "best" novelists in Chapter 1? What lesson does he cite of them?
6. What does Gardner remark about theme in Chapter 1?
7. How does Gardner describe traditional plot, victim stories, and "epiphany stories?"
8. What does Gardner write of expressing characters' emotions in Chapter 1?
9. What authors does Gardner use to illustrate language and character in Chapter 1?
10. What state does good fiction elicit in the reader, according to Gardner?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss what Gardner refers to as "faith" in the final chapter. Where does the author find faith? How should the author go about escaping writer's block?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss Gardner's feelings about the element of "theme" when writing. Where is "theme" useful? Where is it not?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss what Gardner refers to as "special intelligence" in the writer. How does Gardner's definition of intelligence differ from the dictionary definition?
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