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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 is the name of the man who moves next door to his teenage daughter in Gardner's hypothetical story in Chapter 1?
(a) James.
(b) Frank.
(c) Bob.
(d) Bill.

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

3. Who wrote Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy?
(a) William Faulkner.
(b) Raymond Carver.
(c) Ernest Hemingway.
(d) Theodore Dreiser.

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

5. What painter does Gardner remark in Chapter 1 never sold a painting in his life?
(a) Picasso.
(b) Van Gogh.
(c) Matisse.
(d) Monet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gardner suggests that the dazzling poetry of Mercutio's Queen Mab speech is not the same poetry that who speaks?

2. What does Gardner compare to the floors and structural supports in a fine old mansion in Chapter 1?

3. Gardner writes in Chapter 1 that when the central character is a victim there is no what?

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

5. What is, according to Gardner, the one quality in fiction that cannot be faked?

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