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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 does Gardner claim is helpful, if it can be kept in partial control, to keep the novelist driven?
(a) A tendency to prove himself.
(b) A need for love.
(c) A tendency to drink.
(d) A psychological wound.

2. What does Gardner say we call a writer who has less feeling for his characters than we feel they deserve?
(a) Frigid.
(b) Stylized.
(c) Mannered.
(d) Tedious.

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

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) Charles Dickens.
(b) Stephen King.
(c) James Joyce.
(d) Anton Chekhov.

5. 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?
(a) Anthony Trollope.
(b) Moliere.
(c) James Joyce.
(d) F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gardner writes in Chapter 1 that when the central character is a victim there is no what?

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

3. Where had John Gardner taught before Chico State College?

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

5. In what novel does Levin propose to Kitty, as cited in Chapter 1?

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