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

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

3. In Chapter 1, Gardner writes, "Though there are exceptions, as a rule the good novelist does not worry primarily about ____ brilliance."
(a) Creative.
(b) Linguistic.
(c) Artistic.
(d) Auditory.

4. The two things that keep the common reader turning the pages, according to Gardner are story or what?
(a) Theme.
(b) Argument.
(c) Mood.
(d) Character.

5. Gardner suggests the young writer get a first-rate freshman composition book such as An American Rhetoric by whom?
(a) Stuart Waterman.
(b) Michael A. Morris.
(c) W. W. Watt.
(d) James A. Richards.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

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

5. Which author wrote A Tale of Two Cities?

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