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

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

3. What was Gardner's first wife's name?
(a) Emily.
(b) Joan.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Nora.

4. What is the honest answer to the question most young writer's ask of "Do I have what it takes to be a writer?" according to Gardner?
(a) "You'll know in time."
(b) "Definitely no."
(c) "God only knows."
(d) "Definitely yet."

5. What magazine does Gardner suggest for good literary work in Chapter 1?
(a) The Londoner.
(b) The London Book Review.
(c) The Reader's Digest.
(d) The New Yorker.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is one of the writers Gardner notes in Chapter 1 as having both a fine ear for language and also a fascination with the materials?

2. Gardner notes in Chapter 1 that Mercutio's madness is fantastic and what?

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

4. Gardner suggests that the dazzling poetry of Mercutio's Queen Mab speech is not the same poetry that who speaks?

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

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