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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Faith.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which writer, although thought of as a solitary genius, spent time working in close community with Ford Maddox Ford?
(a) Henry James.
(b) Joseph Conrad.
(c) Ernest Hemingway.
(d) Stephen Crane.

2. Who does Gardner say one can be fooled by the nature of imagining that the best way to become a writer is to be a seaman or a lumberjack?
(a) Thomas Pinchon.
(b) Ernest Hemingway.
(c) Jack Frost.
(d) Jack London.

3. What year did Raymond Carver move to Chico, California?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1958.

4. Who is cited as the head of the writing program at Johns Hopkins and favors new and strange styles?
(a) Max Apple.
(b) William Glass.
(c) Kurt Vonnegut.
(d) John Barth.

5. Young novelists who are blocked should write what to get practice in the basic forms of storytelling?
(a) Poems.
(b) Science fiction.
(c) Memoirs.
(d) Short stories.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which manuscript did Gardner send out which got a reply suggesting he cut it by a third?

2. What class, at least in America, does Gardner say most writers come from?

3. In Chapter 1, Gardner writes that one is unable to write for everyone, "try to win the audience both of Saul Bellow and" whom?

4. Who wrote Divine Comedy?

5. Where did David Segal go after New American Library?

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