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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. Who wrote Divine Comedy?
(a) Dante.
(b) Chekhov.
(c) Bloom.
(d) Joyce.

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

3. Who is one of the writers Gardner notes in Chapter 1 as having both a fine ear for language and also a fascination with the materials?
(a) Proust.
(b) Fitzgerald.
(c) Hemingway.
(d) Joyce.

4. 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) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(b) William Faulkner.
(c) Dylan Thomas.
(d) John Updike.

5. Who is the author of Crime and Punishment?
(a) Flannagan.
(b) Nabokov.
(c) Joyce.
(d) Dostoevsky.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gardner compares Melville's Moby Dick with what in Chapter 1?

2. Gardner claims he has been happy writing since the age of what?

3. With what older colleague did Gardner publish an anthology of fiction at Chico College?

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

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

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