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On Becoming a Novelist Quiz

John Gardner
This Study Guide consists of approximately 29 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of On Becoming a Novelist.

On Becoming a Novelist Quiz

John Gardner
This Study Guide consists of approximately 29 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of On Becoming a Novelist.

Take our free On Becoming a Novelist quiz below, with 25 multiple choice questions that help you test your knowledge. Determine which chapters, themes and styles you already know and what you need to study for your upcoming essay, midterm, or final exam. Take the free quiz now!

Directions: Click on the correct answer.

Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

Theoretically, there is no need for what in the writer, for children build sand castles and ministers pray over the sick without blockages? (from Chapter 4, Faith)

2.

Gardner states in Chapter 2 that the first value of a writer's workshop is that it makes the young writer feel not abnormal but what? (from Chapter 2, The Writer's Training and Education)

3.

Gardner writes in Chapter 2 that in a bad workshop, the teacher allows or even encourages what? (from Chapter 2, The Writer's Training and Education)

4.

What word does Gardner use to describe that teaching which tends to emphasize theme and design over feeling and authentic narrative? (from Chapter 2, The Writer's Training and Education)

5.

What is one of the great questions of the moment which is addressed in The World According to Garp? (from Chapter 3, Publication and Survival)

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