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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 word does Gardner use to mean a phrase is worn out and overused?
(a) Sentimental.
(b) Ironic.
(c) Trite.
(d) Cliche.

2. What author does Gardner remark has a bad habit of breaking the vivid and continuous dream by pouring on the rhetoric in Chapter 1?
(a) Joyce.
(b) Salinger.
(c) Hemingway.
(d) Faulkner.

3. 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.

4. Which author does Gardner say has a style at parties to take to the floor at any cost, telling funny stories?
(a) Stanley Elkin.
(b) Bernard Malamud.
(c) Joyce Carol Oates.
(d) Truman Capote.

5. What author does Gardner remark has a persistent mean streak in his writing?
(a) Joyce.
(b) Hemingway.
(c) Kerouac.
(d) Salinger.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of The Turn of the Screw?

2. Gardner notes in Chapter 1 that Mercutio's madness is fantastic and what?

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

4. What masterpiece of James Joyce does Gardner suggest typing out for language growth in Chapter 1?

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?

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