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

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) Stylized.
(b) Bad.
(c) Mannered.
(d) Tedious.

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

4. Gardner notes in Chapter 1 that Mercutio's madness is fantastic and what?
(a) Phantasmic.
(b) Unbalanced.
(c) Justified.
(d) Ironic.

5. Gardner states that the effective writer leads the reader into a continuous what?
(a) Story line.
(b) Characterization.
(c) Dream.
(d) Trance.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which author wrote A Tale of Two Cities?

2. What is the first thing that Gardner states a writer needs to have in Chapter 1?

3. What is one of the philosophers who has maintained that words inevitably distance us from the brute existence, according to Gardner in Chapter 1?

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

5. What word does Gardner use to mean a phrase is worn out and overused?

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