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

2. What does Gardner say that good fiction starts off in the reader's head?
(a) A hunger for more.
(b) An addiction.
(c) A nightmare.
(d) A continuous dream.

3. Which title does Raymond Carver say is the only one he recalls of John Gardner's manuscripts in the Forward?
(a) Nickel Mountain.
(b) The King's Indian.
(c) The Life and Times of Chaucer.
(d) Grendel.

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. If a writer agrees with the notes an editor sends, he should do what with his manuscript?
(a) Burn it.
(b) Revise it.
(c) Ask another opinion.
(d) Send it elsewhere.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gardner writes in Chapter 2 that in a bad workshop, the teacher takes the place of the student's what?

2. Gardner states in Chapter 2, "If there are objective laws of ______, not all of theme apply in every instance, and none of them finally have to do with purpose."

3. Which author does Gardner state had "gazelle eyes" which dominated the room in Chapter 1?

4. What is the title of Chapter 3?

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

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