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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. Gardner suggests that the dazzling poetry of Mercutio's Queen Mab speech is not the same poetry that who speaks?
(a) Juliet.
(b) Hamlet.
(c) Petrucio.
(d) Macbeth.

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

3. What year did Raymond Carver move to Chico, California?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1958.
(d) 1965.

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

5. Gardner claims he has been happy writing since the age of what?
(a) 12.
(b) 6.
(c) 16.
(d) 8.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what older colleague did Gardner publish an anthology of fiction at Chico College?

2. Gardner notes in Chapter 1 that all writing requires some measure of a ____ state.

3. What anthology of fiction did Gardner publish with a colleague at Chico College?

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

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

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