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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 state in Chapter 1 that we call a writer who cares more for language than the other elements of fiction?
(a) Bad.
(b) Stylized.
(c) Mannered.
(d) Tedious.

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

3. Who wrote Finnegan's Wake?
(a) Nabokov.
(b) Joyce.
(c) Robbe-Grillet.
(d) Flaubert.

4. Who is the author of Crime and Punishment?
(a) Flannagan.
(b) Dostoevsky.
(c) Joyce.
(d) Nabokov.

5. What author does Gardner remark has a bad habit of breaking the vivid and continuous dream by pouring on the rhetoric in Chapter 1?
(a) Faulkner.
(b) Hemingway.
(c) Salinger.
(d) Joyce.

Short Answer Questions

1. What name does Gardner assign to the teenage daughter whose unknown father moves next door in Chapter 1?

2. Which sci-fi author wrote A Canticle for Liebowitz?

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

4. 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"?

5. Who is the author of Death in Venice?

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