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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 does Gardner cite as one of the most respected publishers of novels?
(a) Penguin.
(b) Harper and Row.
(c) Simon and Schuster.
(d) Alfred A. Knopf.

2. In what novel does Levin propose to Kitty, as cited in Chapter 1?
(a) Anna Karenina.
(b) Crime and Punishment.
(c) Nicholas Nickleby.
(d) Emma.

3. What author does Gardner say has a deep misanthropic mistrust in Chapter 1?
(a) Steinbeck.
(b) Bedlow.
(c) Dickens.
(d) Flaubert.

4. What is one of the philosophers who has maintained that words inevitably distance us from the brute existence, according to Gardner in Chapter 1?
(a) Plato.
(b) Nietzsche.
(c) Kierkegaard.
(d) Socrates.

5. What are the long pages from the typesetter, marked up by the proofreader for typographical errors?
(a) Novel-preform.
(b) Script.
(c) Manuscript.
(d) Galleys.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 2, what does Gardner say the world has far more than it needs?

3. 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?

4. Who wrote Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy?

5. Gardner states in Chapter 3 that a writer has to go far out of his way to turn his what against him?

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