1. What does Gardner say that good fiction starts off in the reader's head?
(a) A nightmare.
(b) A hunger for more.
(c) A continuous dream.
(d) An addiction.

2. Gardner writes in Chapter 1 that if one studies with whom, does he learn that Shakespeare is better than Mickey Spillane?
(a) Dr. Andrew Dryd.
(b) Dr. Martin Meyer.
(c) Dr. Michael Mortenson.
(d) Dr. Stanley Fish.

3. In what novel does Levin propose to Kitty, as cited in Chapter 1?
(a) Crime and Punishment.
(b) Nicholas Nickleby.
(c) Anna Karenina.
(d) Emma.

4. What book was Gardner writing when he remembered the altered sense coming over him while in the last chapter?
(a) Nickel Mountain.
(b) The Resurrection.
(c) Grendel.
(d) October Light.

5. Who wrote Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy?
(a) Theodore Dreiser.
(b) William Faulkner.
(c) Raymond Carver.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

Short Answer Questions

1. What author does Gardner say was known to arrive at a party and sit for ten minutes or more staring at guests and not answering when people addressed him in Chapter1?

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

3. What is the first thing that Gardner states a writer needs to have in Chapter 1?

4. Where did Raymond Carver move to Chico, California from?

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

(see the answer key)

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