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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 is the name of the man who moves next door to his teenage daughter in Gardner's hypothetical story in Chapter 1?
(a) Bill.
(b) James.
(c) Frank.
(d) Bob.

2. Whose disguise in Jane Eyre does Gardner comment on as surprising in Chapter 1?
(a) Mr. Darby.
(b) Mr. Wolverton.
(c) Mr. Rochester.
(d) Mr. Bryg.

3. Gardner suggests that the dazzling poetry of Mercutio's Queen Mab speech is not the same poetry that who speaks?
(a) Hamlet.
(b) Petrucio.
(c) Macbeth.
(d) Juliet.

4. What is one of the more reputedly good magazines that Gardner suggests publication in?
(a) Georgia Review.
(b) Oxford Book Review.
(c) Reader's Digest.
(d) Maxim.

5. What is the first thing that Gardner states a writer needs to have in Chapter 1?
(a) Empathy.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Verbal sensitivity.
(d) Wisdom.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 3, Gardner writes, "One hears the complaint that conferences lead to a kind of writer ____."

2. What teacher and poet is quoted as saying, "My object is to catch right now what will embarrass my students when they look at their poetry ten years from now"?

3. The two things that keep the common reader turning the pages, according to Gardner are story or what?

4. What author responded to the question of why she wrote fiction, "Because I'm good at it"?

5. Of which writer does Gardner say, "the brilliant language with which he describes a minor character cannot help but suggest that the words he chooses are more important to him than the token secretary behind the desk"?

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