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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which author does Gardner state had "gazelle eyes" which dominated the room in Chapter 1?
(a) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(b) James Joyce.
(c) Anthony Trollope.
(d) Joyce Carol Oates.

2. Gardner suggests the young writer get a first-rate freshman composition book such as An American Rhetoric by whom?
(a) Stuart Waterman.
(b) James A. Richards.
(c) W. W. Watt.
(d) Michael A. Morris.

3. What masterpiece of James Joyce does Gardner suggest typing out for language growth in Chapter 1?
(a) "Finnegan's Wake."
(b) "The Dead."
(c) "Ulysses."
(d) "The Wall."

4. Gardner compares Melville's Moby Dick with what in Chapter 1?
(a) To Have and Have Not.
(b) Anna Karanina.
(c) Omoo.
(d) Emma.

5. Who is the author of The Turn of the Screw?
(a) James Joyce.
(b) Henry Melville.
(c) Henry James.
(d) Dylan Thomas.

6. The two things that keep the common reader turning the pages, according to Gardner are story or what?
(a) Argument.
(b) Character.
(c) Mood.
(d) Theme.

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

8. What author of Over the Edge does Gardner cite in Chapter 1?
(a) Franz Kafka.
(b) James Joyce.
(c) Kurt Vonnegut.
(d) Harlan Ellison.

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

10. Gardner writes in Chapter 1 that when the central character is a victim there is no what?
(a) Suspense.
(b) Empathy.
(c) Action.
(d) Terror.

11. Who wrote Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy?
(a) William Faulkner.
(b) Raymond Carver.
(c) Ernest Hemingway.
(d) Theodore Dreiser.

12. In what novel does Gardner note the rooftop scene as being one of surprise in Chapter 1?
(a) Seize the Day.
(b) Emma.
(c) Crime and Punishment.
(d) Nicholas Nickleby.

13. Which author wrote A Tale of Two Cities?
(a) Steinbeck.
(b) Bedlow.
(c) Dickens.
(d) Melville.

14. What magazine does Gardner suggest for good literary work in Chapter 1?
(a) The London Book Review.
(b) The Londoner.
(c) The Reader's Digest.
(d) The New Yorker.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Garner always wear, according to Raymond Carver in the Forward?

2. Who is the author of Crime and Punishment?

3. Where did Raymond Carver move to Chico, California from?

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

5. Who wrote Bartelby the Scrivener?

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