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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. Where did Raymond Carver move to Chico, California from?
(a) Connecticut.
(b) Arkansas.
(c) Wyoming.
(d) Washington.

2. What does Gardner state in Chapter 1 that we call a writer who cares more for language than the other elements of fiction?
(a) Stylized.
(b) Bad.
(c) Mannered.
(d) Tedious.

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

4. What does Gardner say that good fiction starts off in the reader's head?
(a) A hunger for more.
(b) An addiction.
(c) A continuous dream.
(d) A nightmare.

5. To whose poetry and prose had Gardner made allusions to in the novel Grendel?
(a) Lord Byron.
(b) Percy Shelley.
(c) Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
(d) William Blake.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first thing that Gardner states a writer needs to have in Chapter 1?

2. What year did Raymond Carver move to Chico, California?

3. What author of Over the Edge does Gardner cite in Chapter 1?

4. Which sci-fi author wrote A Canticle for Liebowitz?

5. What painter does Gardner remark in Chapter 1 never sold a painting in his life?

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