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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, The Writer's Nature, Pages 1-34.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What did Garner always wear, according to Raymond Carver in the Forward?
(a) A gray suit.
(b) A black suit.
(c) A brown suit.
(d) A gray fedora.

4. In Chapter 1, Gardner writes that one is unable to write for everyone, "try to win the audience both of Saul Bellow and" whom?
(a) Charles Dickens.
(b) Anton Chekhov.
(c) Stephen King.
(d) James Joyce.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the philosophers who has maintained that words inevitably distance us from the brute existence, according to Gardner in Chapter 1?

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

3. Which title does Raymond Carver say is the only one he recalls of John Gardner's manuscripts in the Forward?

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

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

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