On Becoming a Novelist Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

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On Becoming a Novelist Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

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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. Letters to publishing houses should ideally be addressed to whom?
(a) A particular editor.
(b) The head editor.
(c) The assistant editor.
(d) Any editor.

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

3. Which writing teacher and author is famous for the energy and relative success with which he pushes his students' work at appropriate editors?
(a) James Dickinson.
(b) Sean Howard.
(c) Raymond Carver.
(d) Robert Coover.

4. Gardner writes in Chapter 3, "Young writers want to ____ because they're unsure of themselves."
(a) Study.
(b) Publish.
(c) Go to school.
(d) Read.

5. What word does Gardner use to mean a phrase is worn out and overused?
(a) Trite.
(b) Ironic.
(c) Sentimental.
(d) Cliche.

Short Answer Questions

1. What author once remarked "the best way to become a writer is to go off and write"?

2. In Chapter 1, Gardner states that "In a literary culture where the very notion of a 'masterpiece' is commonly thought" what?

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

4. In the world of grants, Gardner writes in Chapter 2, who has a better chance than other artists?

5. What is one of the philosophers who has maintained that words inevitably distance us from the brute existence, according to Gardner in Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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