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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 author does Gardner say has a deep misanthropic mistrust in Chapter 1?
(a) Bedlow.
(b) Dickens.
(c) Flaubert.
(d) Steinbeck.

2. What is one of the philosophers who has maintained that words inevitably distance us from the brute existence, according to Gardner in Chapter 1?
(a) Kierkegaard.
(b) Plato.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) Socrates.

3. Who is the author of All the King's Men?
(a) William Faulkner.
(b) Robert Penn Warren.
(c) Franz Kafka.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

4. In what novel does Levin propose to Kitty, as cited in Chapter 1?
(a) Emma.
(b) Anna Karenina.
(c) Nicholas Nickleby.
(d) Crime and Punishment.

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) James Joyce.
(c) Moliere.
(d) F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What does Gardner state in Chapter 1 that we call a writer who cares more for language than the other elements of fiction?

4. What is, according to Gardner, the one quality in fiction that cannot be faked?

5. Who wrote Divine Comedy?

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