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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 developed the style of the "epiphany story" in The Dubliners?
(a) McKinley.
(b) Joyce.
(c) Beckett.
(d) Conrad.

2. What year did Raymond Carver move to Chico, California?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1958.

3. What painter does Gardner remark in Chapter 1 never sold a painting in his life?
(a) Van Gogh.
(b) Monet.
(c) Matisse.
(d) Picasso.

4. What story of Robert Penn Warren's did Raymond Carver read in Gardner's class at Chico State College?
(a) "Ulysses."
(b) "To Have and Have Not."
(c) "Last of the Mohicans."
(d) "Blackberry Winter."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. The two things that keep the common reader turning the pages, according to Gardner are story or what?

3. Gardner suggests that the dazzling poetry of Mercutio's Queen Mab speech is not the same poetry that who speaks?

4. What author does Gardner say was known to arrive at a party and sit for ten minutes or more staring at guests and not answering when people addressed him in Chapter1?

5. What author of Over the Edge does Gardner cite in Chapter 1?

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