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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.

The poem of Gardner's which he uses as an example in Chapter 4 begins, "Lovely, spooky, dark blue Gentian, / Inner walls like speckled _____." (from Chapter 4, Faith)

2.

What does Gardner claim is helpful, if it can be kept in partial control, to keep the novelist driven? (from Chapter 1, The Writer's Nature, Pages 34-72)

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.

As when learning to bicycle, writer should take one thing at a time: perfect a passage of description, then a passage of dialog, then move to the larger units of what? (from Chapter 4, Faith)

5.

A writer must always start with a careful what? (from Chapter 4, Faith)

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