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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 suggests the young writer get a first-rate freshman composition book such as An American Rhetoric by whom?
(a) Michael A. Morris.
(b) James A. Richards.
(c) W. W. Watt.
(d) Stuart Waterman.

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

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

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

5. What author does Gardner say has a deep misanthropic mistrust in Chapter 1?
(a) Bedlow.
(b) Dickens.
(c) Steinbeck.
(d) Flaubert.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of Death in Venice?

2. Gardner states that the effective writer leads the reader into a continuous what?

3. Which author does Gardner state had "gazelle eyes" which dominated the room in Chapter 1?

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

5. Where had John Gardner taught before Chico State College?

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