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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 kind of intelligence does Gardner say is important to the writer in Chapter 1?
(a) Psychological.
(b) Philosophical.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Storyteller's.

2. In Chapter 1, Gardner writes that one is unable to write for everyone, "try to win the audience both of Saul Bellow and" whom?
(a) Anton Chekhov.
(b) Stephen King.
(c) Charles Dickens.
(d) James Joyce.

3. What is the honest answer to the question most young writer's ask of "Do I have what it takes to be a writer?" according to Gardner?
(a) "God only knows."
(b) "Definitely yet."
(c) "You'll know in time."
(d) "Definitely no."

4. What psychologist suggests that Jack and the Beanstalk is about penis envy?
(a) Carl Jung.
(b) Bruno Bettelheim.
(c) Sigmund Freud.
(d) Madison Thomas.

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?
(a) Joyce.
(b) Faulkner.
(c) Salinger.
(d) Hemingway.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of Piers Plowman?

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

3. What author of Over the Edge does Gardner cite in Chapter 1?

4. What does Gardner say that good fiction starts off in the reader's head?

5. Of whose writing does Gardner say that no reader can doubt the impulse to capture real life, "the special quality of country-Welsh craziness"?

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