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

2. What word does Gardner use to mean a phrase is worn out and overused?
(a) Sentimental.
(b) Cliche.
(c) Ironic.
(d) Trite.

3. What does Gardner say "breeds success" in Chapter 1?
(a) Persistence.
(b) Connections.
(c) Dedication.
(d) Success.

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

5. What story of Robert Penn Warren's did Raymond Carver read in Gardner's class at Chico State College?
(a) "Ulysses."
(b) "Blackberry Winter."
(c) "Last of the Mohicans."
(d) "To Have and Have Not."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gardner state in Chapter 1 that we call a writer who cares more for language than the other elements of fiction?

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

3. Who wrote Finnegan's Wake?

4. Who wrote Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy?

5. Gardner states that in the works of Shakespeare, language always serves character and what?

(see the answer key)

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