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

2. Who is the author of Crime and Punishment?
(a) Joyce.
(b) Flannagan.
(c) Nabokov.
(d) Dostoevsky.

3. Who wrote Divine Comedy?
(a) Dante.
(b) Joyce.
(c) Bloom.
(d) Chekhov.

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

5. Who developed the style of the "epiphany story" in The Dubliners?
(a) Beckett.
(b) Conrad.
(c) Joyce.
(d) McKinley.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of which writer does Gardner say, "the brilliant language with which he describes a minor character cannot help but suggest that the words he chooses are more important to him than the token secretary behind the desk"?

2. What is the name of the man who moves next door to his teenage daughter in Gardner's hypothetical story in Chapter 1?

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

4. What was Gardner's first wife's name?

5. Of whose writing does Gardner say that no reader can doubt the impulse to capture real life, "the special quality of country-Welsh craziness"?

(see the answer key)

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