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

2. What masterpiece of James Joyce does Gardner suggest typing out for language growth in Chapter 1?
(a) "Ulysses."
(b) "Finnegan's Wake."
(c) "The Dead."
(d) "The Wall."

3. To whose poetry and prose had Gardner made allusions to in the novel Grendel?
(a) Percy Shelley.
(b) William Blake.
(c) Lord Byron.
(d) Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

4. In what novel does Levin propose to Kitty, as cited in Chapter 1?
(a) Emma.
(b) Crime and Punishment.
(c) Nicholas Nickleby.
(d) Anna Karenina.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Gardner writes in Chapter 1 that if one studies with whom, does he learn that Shakespeare is better than Mickey Spillane?

2. Who is the author of Piers Plowman?

3. What is the name of the man who moves next door to his teenage daughter in Gardner's hypothetical story in Chapter 1?

4. What word does Gardner use to mean a phrase is worn out and overused?

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

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