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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, The Writer's Nature, Pages 34-72.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of intelligence does Gardner say is important to the writer in Chapter 1?
(a) Philosophical.
(b) Storyteller's.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Psychological.

2. Who wrote Divine Comedy?
(a) Bloom.
(b) Chekhov.
(c) Joyce.
(d) Dante.

3. Gardner states in Chapter 1 that Canterbury Tales is a disguised what?
(a) War poem.
(b) Love poem.
(c) Sermon.
(d) Shakespearean ode.

4. Gardner writes in Chapter 1 that when the central character is a victim there is no what?
(a) Terror.
(b) Suspense.
(c) Action.
(d) Empathy.

5. What is, according to Gardner, the one quality in fiction that cannot be faked?
(a) Strangeness.
(b) Honor.
(c) Love.
(d) Beauty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of The Turn of the Screw?

2. Gardner states that in the works of Shakespeare, language always serves character and what?

3. What psychologist suggests that Jack and the Beanstalk is about penis envy?

4. With what older colleague did Gardner publish an anthology of fiction at Chico College?

5. What does Gardner claim is helpful, if it can be kept in partial control, to keep the novelist driven?

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