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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 does Gardner say that good fiction starts off in the reader's head?
(a) An addiction.
(b) A nightmare.
(c) A continuous dream.
(d) A hunger for more.

2. Gardner notes in Chapter 1 that Mercutio's madness is fantastic and what?
(a) Justified.
(b) Ironic.
(c) Unbalanced.
(d) Phantasmic.

3. Gardner states that in the works of Shakespeare, language always serves character and what?
(a) Aesthetic.
(b) Wit.
(c) Irony.
(d) Action.

4. With what older colleague did Gardner publish an anthology of fiction at Chico College?
(a) Michael Ewing.
(b) James Fenway.
(c) David Wellesley.
(d) Lennis Dunlap.

5. Who is the author of Death in Venice?
(a) Herman Melville.
(b) Thomas Mann.
(c) William Shakespeare.
(d) Clifford Odets.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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"?

3. In Chapter 1, Gardner writes, "Though there are exceptions, as a rule the good novelist does not worry primarily about ____ brilliance."

4. Gardner refers to boring, worn out language as being what kind of mask?

5. Gardner states in Chapter 1 that Canterbury Tales is a disguised what?

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