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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Publication and Survival.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Hemingway.
(c) Salinger.
(d) Faulkner.

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

3. What is one of the great questions of the moment which is addressed in The World According to Garp?
(a) Race relations.
(b) Globalization.
(c) Feminism.
(d) Environment.

4. Of what author does Gardner say his heroes are clown-heroes knocked around by the universe?
(a) Kafka.
(b) Hemingway.
(c) Odets.
(d) James.

5. To which editor at New American Library did Gardner send The Sunlight Diaries?
(a) David Segal.
(b) Michael Harper.
(c) Bob Gottlieb.
(d) Harry Crews.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, Gardner writes that writing, "like the study of classical piano, is not practical but _____."

2. What publishing house did Gardner send Grendel to first?

3. Which philosopher maintained that nothing a writer writes means anything, "all the words are a lunatic blithering," since all language is by nature false and misleading?

4. Who wrote Bartelby the Scrivener?

5. Publishing houses tend to have what, according to Gardner in Chapter 3?

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