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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) Dream.
(b) Story line.
(c) Characterization.
(d) Trance.

2. Gardner notes in Chapter 1 that all writing requires some measure of a ____ state.
(a) Brave.
(b) Fearful.
(c) Trance.
(d) Confident.

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) Joyce.
(c) Hemingway.
(d) Fitzgerald.

4. Who is the author of Death in Venice?
(a) Herman Melville.
(b) Thomas Mann.
(c) William Shakespeare.
(d) Clifford Odets.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the man who moves next door to his teenage daughter in Gardner's hypothetical story in Chapter 1?

2. Who is the author of Piers Plowman?

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

4. Who is the author of All the King's Men?

5. Gardner writes in Chapter 1 that when the central character is a victim there is no what?

(see the answer key)

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