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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 year did Raymond Carver move to Chico, California?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1958.

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

3. Whose disguise in Jane Eyre does Gardner comment on as surprising in Chapter 1?
(a) Mr. Bryg.
(b) Mr. Wolverton.
(c) Mr. Darby.
(d) Mr. Rochester.

4. Gardner notes in Chapter 1 that all writing requires some measure of a ____ state.
(a) Fearful.
(b) Brave.
(c) Trance.
(d) Confident.

5. Who developed the style of the "epiphany story" in The Dubliners?
(a) Joyce.
(b) McKinley.
(c) Conrad.
(d) Beckett.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What painter does Gardner remark in Chapter 1 never sold a painting in his life?

3. What story of Robert Penn Warren's did Raymond Carver read in Gardner's class at Chico State College?

4. Gardner suggests the young writer get a first-rate freshman composition book such as An American Rhetoric by whom?

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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