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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 is the author of Crime and Punishment?
(a) Joyce.
(b) Flannagan.
(c) Dostoevsky.
(d) Nabokov.

2. In Chapter 1, Gardner writes, "Though there are exceptions, as a rule the good novelist does not worry primarily about ____ brilliance."
(a) Artistic.
(b) Creative.
(c) Linguistic.
(d) Auditory.

3. 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?
(a) "God only knows."
(b) "You'll know in time."
(c) "Definitely yet."
(d) "Definitely no."

4. Which author wrote A Tale of Two Cities?
(a) Steinbeck.
(b) Bedlow.
(c) Melville.
(d) Dickens.

5. Who wrote Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy?
(a) Raymond Carver.
(b) Theodore Dreiser.
(c) Ernest Hemingway.
(d) William Faulkner.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gardner compares Melville's Moby Dick with what in Chapter 1?

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

3. Who wrote Divine Comedy?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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