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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, The Writer's Nature, Pages 34-72.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the author of Crime and Punishment?
(a) Joyce.
(b) Flannagan.
(c) Dostoevsky.
(d) Nabokov.

2. Who wrote Bartelby the Scrivener?
(a) Thomas Mann.
(b) Herman Melville.
(c) Ernest Hemingway.
(d) James Joyce.

3. What does Gardner compare to the floors and structural supports in a fine old mansion in Chapter 1?
(a) Action.
(b) Theme.
(c) Plot.
(d) Character.

4. In Chapter 1, Gardner states that "In a literary culture where the very notion of a 'masterpiece' is commonly thought" what?
(a) Barbaric.
(b) Dangerous.
(c) Impossible.
(d) Immature.

5. To whose poetry and prose had Gardner made allusions to in the novel Grendel?
(a) William Blake.
(b) Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
(c) Percy Shelley.
(d) Lord Byron.

Short Answer Questions

1. What author does Gardner say has a deep misanthropic mistrust in Chapter 1?

2. Who is the author of The Turn of the Screw?

3. Gardner states in Chapter 1 that Canterbury Tales is a disguised what?

4. Who developed the style of the "epiphany story" in The Dubliners?

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

(see the answer key)

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