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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. Who is the author of All the King's Men?
(a) William Faulkner.
(b) Franz Kafka.
(c) Robert Penn Warren.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

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

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

4. What author of Over the Edge does Gardner cite in Chapter 1?
(a) Franz Kafka.
(b) Harlan Ellison.
(c) Kurt Vonnegut.
(d) James Joyce.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. What author does Gardner remark has a bad habit of breaking the vivid and continuous dream by pouring on the rhetoric in Chapter 1?

3. Who is the author of Crime and Punishment?

4. What does Gardner claim is helpful, if it can be kept in partial control, to keep the novelist driven?

5. What psychologist suggests that Jack and the Beanstalk is about penis envy?

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