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

2. Who is one of the writers Gardner notes in Chapter 1 as having both a fine ear for language and also a fascination with the materials?
(a) Joyce.
(b) Hemingway.
(c) Fitzgerald.
(d) Proust.

3. What name does Gardner assign to the teenage daughter whose unknown father moves next door in Chapter 1?
(a) Laura.
(b) Michelle.
(c) Wanda.
(d) Sarah.

4. Gardner suggests that the dazzling poetry of Mercutio's Queen Mab speech is not the same poetry that who speaks?
(a) Hamlet.
(b) Macbeth.
(c) Petrucio.
(d) Juliet.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Finnegan's Wake?

2. Gardner compares Melville's Moby Dick with what in Chapter 1?

3. Who is the author of All the King's Men?

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

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

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