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

2. What is one of the philosophers who has maintained that words inevitably distance us from the brute existence, according to Gardner in Chapter 1?
(a) Kierkegaard.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Plato.
(d) Nietzsche.

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

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

5. Gardner suggests the young writer get a first-rate freshman composition book such as An American Rhetoric by whom?
(a) Michael A. Morris.
(b) Stuart Waterman.
(c) James A. Richards.
(d) W. W. Watt.

Short Answer Questions

1. What author does Gardner say has a deep misanthropic mistrust in Chapter 1?

2. Gardner claims he has been happy writing since the age of what?

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

4. What anthology of fiction did Gardner publish with a colleague at Chico College?

5. Gardner notes in Chapter 1 that Mercutio's madness is fantastic and what?

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