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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. Gardner states that the effective writer leads the reader into a continuous what?
(a) Trance.
(b) Characterization.
(c) Story line.
(d) Dream.

2. What anthology of fiction did Gardner publish with a colleague at Chico College?
(a) Dragon, Dragon, and Other Tales.
(b) The Complete Works of the Gawain Poet.
(c) The Forms of Fiction.
(d) The Life and Times of Chaucer.

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

4. What did Garner always wear, according to Raymond Carver in the Forward?
(a) A gray suit.
(b) A gray fedora.
(c) A black suit.
(d) A brown suit.

5. Gardner claims he has been happy writing since the age of what?
(a) 8.
(b) 16.
(c) 6.
(d) 12.

Short Answer Questions

1. What psychologist suggests that Jack and the Beanstalk is about penis envy?

2. Whose disguise in Jane Eyre does Gardner comment on as surprising in Chapter 1?

3. Which sci-fi author wrote A Canticle for Liebowitz?

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

5. Gardner notes in Chapter 1 that Mercutio's madness is fantastic and what?

(see the answer key)

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