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

2. 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) Socrates.
(b) Nietzsche.
(c) Kierkegaard.
(d) Plato.

3. In Chapter 1, Gardner writes that one is unable to write for everyone, "try to win the audience both of Saul Bellow and" whom?
(a) Stephen King.
(b) James Joyce.
(c) Anton Chekhov.
(d) Charles Dickens.

4. With what older colleague did Gardner publish an anthology of fiction at Chico College?
(a) Lennis Dunlap.
(b) David Wellesley.
(c) James Fenway.
(d) Michael Ewing.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Gardner refers to boring, worn out language as being what kind of mask?

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

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

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

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