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

2. What was Gardner's first wife's name?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Nora.
(c) Emily.
(d) Joan.

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

4. In Chapter 1, Gardner writes that one is unable to write for everyone, "try to win the audience both of Saul Bellow and" whom?
(a) Stephen King.
(b) James Joyce.
(c) Anton Chekhov.
(d) Charles Dickens.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the honest answer to the question most young writer's ask of "Do I have what it takes to be a writer?" according to Gardner?

2. What does Gardner say "breeds success" in Chapter 1?

3. In Chapter 1, Gardner states that "In a literary culture where the very notion of a 'masterpiece' is commonly thought" what?

4. Gardner states in Chapter 1 that Canterbury Tales is a disguised what?

5. Which philosopher maintained that nothing a writer writes means anything, "all the words are a lunatic blithering," since all language is by nature false and misleading?

(see the answer key)

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