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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. Of whose writing does Gardner say that no reader can doubt the impulse to capture real life, "the special quality of country-Welsh craziness"?
(a) John Updike.
(b) Dylan Thomas.
(c) Samuel Beckett.
(d) Shakespeare.

2. In what novel does Gardner note the rooftop scene as being one of surprise in Chapter 1?
(a) Crime and Punishment.
(b) Emma.
(c) Seize the Day.
(d) Nicholas Nickleby.

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

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

5. With what older colleague did Gardner publish an anthology of fiction at Chico College?
(a) James Fenway.
(b) Michael Ewing.
(c) Lennis Dunlap.
(d) David Wellesley.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who wrote Divine Comedy?

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

4. Who is the author of Crime and Punishment?

5. What author does Gardner remark has a bad habit of breaking the vivid and continuous dream by pouring on the rhetoric in Chapter 1?

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