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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. What year did Raymond Carver move to Chico, California?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1958.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1975.

2. Whose disguise in Jane Eyre does Gardner comment on as surprising in Chapter 1?
(a) Mr. Bryg.
(b) Mr. Darby.
(c) Mr. Rochester.
(d) Mr. Wolverton.

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

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

5. Of which writer does Gardner say, "the brilliant language with which he describes a minor character cannot help but suggest that the words he chooses are more important to him than the token secretary behind the desk"?
(a) Dylan Thomas.
(b) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(c) William Faulkner.
(d) John Updike.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which author does Gardner say has a style at parties to take to the floor at any cost, telling funny stories?

2. Where had John Gardner taught before Chico State College?

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

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

5. Of what author does Gardner say his heroes are clown-heroes knocked around by the universe?

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