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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gardner say "breeds success" in Chapter 1?
(a) Dedication.
(b) Persistence.
(c) Connections.
(d) Success.

2. Gardner refers to boring, worn out language as being what kind of mask?
(a) Need-for-approval.
(b) Pollyanna.
(c) Dramatic.
(d) Hamlet.

3. What does Gardner say we call a writer who has less feeling for his characters than we feel they deserve?
(a) Tedious.
(b) Mannered.
(c) Stylized.
(d) Frigid.

4. What did Garner always wear, according to Raymond Carver in the Forward?
(a) A gray fedora.
(b) A brown suit.
(c) A black suit.
(d) A gray suit.

5. What story of Robert Penn Warren's did Raymond Carver read in Gardner's class at Chico State College?
(a) "Last of the Mohicans."
(b) "Ulysses."
(c) "Blackberry Winter."
(d) "To Have and Have Not."

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 1, Gardner writes that one is unable to write for everyone, "try to win the audience both of Saul Bellow and" whom?

2. Of whose writing does Gardner say that no reader can doubt the impulse to capture real life, "the special quality of country-Welsh craziness"?

3. Of which writer does Gardner say, "the brilliant language with which he describes a minor character cannot help but suggest that the words he chooses are more important to him than the token secretary behind the desk"?

4. The two things that keep the common reader turning the pages, according to Gardner are story or what?

5. What year did Raymond Carver move to Chico, California?

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