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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, The Writer's Nature, Pages 1-34.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Gardner states that in the works of Shakespeare, language always serves character and what?
(a) Aesthetic.
(b) Irony.
(c) Wit.
(d) Action.

3. Of whose writing does Gardner say that no reader can doubt the impulse to capture real life, "the special quality of country-Welsh craziness"?
(a) John Updike.
(b) Dylan Thomas.
(c) Samuel Beckett.
(d) Shakespeare.

4. What is the first thing that Gardner states a writer needs to have in Chapter 1?
(a) Verbal sensitivity.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Empathy.

5. In Chapter 1, Gardner writes, "Though there are exceptions, as a rule the good novelist does not worry primarily about ____ brilliance."
(a) Artistic.
(b) Auditory.
(c) Creative.
(d) Linguistic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Garner always wear, according to Raymond Carver in the Forward?

2. What author of Over the Edge does Gardner cite in Chapter 1?

3. Who wrote Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy?

4. What author does Gardner say has a deep misanthropic mistrust in Chapter 1?

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

(see the answer key)

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