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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. Which author wrote A Tale of Two Cities?
(a) Bedlow.
(b) Steinbeck.
(c) Dickens.
(d) Melville.

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

3. What is the first thing that Gardner states a writer needs to have in Chapter 1?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Empathy.
(c) Verbal sensitivity.
(d) Wisdom.

4. The two things that keep the common reader turning the pages, according to Gardner are story or what?
(a) Character.
(b) Mood.
(c) Argument.
(d) Theme.

5. Gardner writes in Chapter 1 that when the central character is a victim there is no what?
(a) Suspense.
(b) Action.
(c) Empathy.
(d) Terror.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what novel does Levin propose to Kitty, as cited in Chapter 1?

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

3. What painter does Gardner remark in Chapter 1 never sold a painting in his life?

4. Who is the author of Death in Venice?

5. Gardner notes in Chapter 1 that all writing requires some measure of a ____ state.

(see the answer key)

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