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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. Of whose writing does Gardner say that no reader can doubt the impulse to capture real life, "the special quality of country-Welsh craziness"?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Dylan Thomas.
(c) John Updike.
(d) Samuel Beckett.

2. Gardner states that the effective writer leads the reader into a continuous what?
(a) Dream.
(b) Story line.
(c) Characterization.
(d) Trance.

3. With what older colleague did Gardner publish an anthology of fiction at Chico College?
(a) Lennis Dunlap.
(b) James Fenway.
(c) Michael Ewing.
(d) David Wellesley.

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

5. Who is the author of Death in Venice?
(a) William Shakespeare.
(b) Herman Melville.
(c) Clifford Odets.
(d) Thomas Mann.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what novel does Gardner note the rooftop scene as being one of surprise in Chapter 1?

3. Whose disguise in Jane Eyre does Gardner comment on as surprising in Chapter 1?

4. Where had John Gardner taught before Chico State College?

5. Who is the author of All the King's Men?

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