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

2. What name does Gardner assign to the teenage daughter whose unknown father moves next door in Chapter 1?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Laura.
(c) Wanda.
(d) Michelle.

3. What anthology of fiction did Gardner publish with a colleague at Chico College?
(a) The Forms of Fiction.
(b) Dragon, Dragon, and Other Tales.
(c) The Life and Times of Chaucer.
(d) The Complete Works of the Gawain Poet.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What author does Gardner say has a deep misanthropic mistrust in Chapter 1?

2. What word does Gardner use to mean a phrase is worn out and overused?

3. To whose poetry and prose had Gardner made allusions to in the novel Grendel?

4. Who is the author of The Turn of the Screw?

5. Who wrote Finnegan's Wake?

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