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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 brown suit.
(b) A gray suit.
(c) A black suit.
(d) A gray fedora.

2. What does Gardner state in Chapter 1 that we call a writer who cares more for language than the other elements of fiction?
(a) Mannered.
(b) Stylized.
(c) Bad.
(d) Tedious.

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

4. What is one of the philosophers who has maintained that words inevitably distance us from the brute existence, according to Gardner in Chapter 1?
(a) Nietzsche.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Kierkegaard.
(d) Plato.

5. Gardner claims he has been happy writing since the age of what?
(a) 6.
(b) 12.
(c) 8.
(d) 16.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. With what older colleague did Gardner publish an anthology of fiction at Chico College?

3. Which author wrote A Tale of Two Cities?

4. Gardner states that the effective writer leads the reader into a continuous what?

5. What was Gardner's first wife's name?

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