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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) Samuel Beckett.
(b) Dylan Thomas.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) John Updike.

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

3. Who is the author of All the King's Men?
(a) William Faulkner.
(b) Ernest Hemingway.
(c) Franz Kafka.
(d) Robert Penn Warren.

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

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?
(a) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(b) Moliere.
(c) Anthony Trollope.
(d) James Joyce.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gardner claims he has been happy writing since the age of what?

2. Who is the author of Piers Plowman?

3. Who developed the style of the "epiphany story" in The Dubliners?

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

5. To whose poetry and prose had Gardner made allusions to in the novel Grendel?

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