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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. Whose disguise in Jane Eyre does Gardner comment on as surprising in Chapter 1?
(a) Mr. Darby.
(b) Mr. Wolverton.
(c) Mr. Rochester.
(d) Mr. Bryg.

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

3. 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. Stanley Fish.
(d) Dr. Michael Mortenson.

4. To whose poetry and prose had Gardner made allusions to in the novel Grendel?
(a) Percy Shelley.
(b) Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
(c) Lord Byron.
(d) William Blake.

5. Gardner compares Melville's Moby Dick with what in Chapter 1?
(a) To Have and Have Not.
(b) Omoo.
(c) Emma.
(d) Anna Karanina.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gardner suggests the young writer get a first-rate freshman composition book such as An American Rhetoric by whom?

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

3. Who wrote Finnegan's Wake?

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

5. Which author wrote A Tale of Two Cities?

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