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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 did Garner always wear, according to Raymond Carver in the Forward?
(a) A gray fedora.
(b) A brown suit.
(c) A gray suit.
(d) A black suit.

2. Where had John Gardner taught before Chico State College?
(a) University of Ohio.
(b) DePaul University.
(c) New York University.
(d) Oberlin College.

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

4. What anthology of fiction did Gardner publish with a colleague at Chico College?
(a) The Complete Works of the Gawain Poet.
(b) The Forms of Fiction.
(c) Dragon, Dragon, and Other Tales.
(d) The Life and Times of Chaucer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What masterpiece of James Joyce does Gardner suggest typing out for language growth in Chapter 1?

2. The two things that keep the common reader turning the pages, according to Gardner are story or what?

3. Which author wrote A Tale of Two Cities?

4. What does Gardner say "breeds success" in Chapter 1?

5. Who wrote Finnegan's Wake?

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