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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 wrote Finnegan's Wake?
(a) Flaubert.
(b) Nabokov.
(c) Robbe-Grillet.
(d) Joyce.

2. Of what author does Gardner say his heroes are clown-heroes knocked around by the universe?
(a) James.
(b) Hemingway.
(c) Odets.
(d) Kafka.

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

4. 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) Hemingway.
(b) Fitzgerald.
(c) Joyce.
(d) Proust.

5. Which sci-fi author wrote A Canticle for Liebowitz?
(a) Kurt Vonnegut.
(b) Walter M. Miller, Jr.
(c) J.D. Salinger.
(d) Jack Humphries.

Short Answer Questions

1. What psychologist suggests that Jack and the Beanstalk is about penis envy?

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

3. Who wrote Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy?

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?

5. Gardner states that in the works of Shakespeare, language always serves character and what?

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