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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What author of experimental fiction teaches at Rice?
(a) Max Apple.
(b) Michael James.
(c) Thomas Pinchon.
(d) Kurt Vonnegut.

2. Gardner states in Chapter 3 that a writer has to go far out of his way to turn his what against him?
(a) Editor.
(b) Spouse.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Agent.

3. Publishing houses tend to have what, according to Gardner in Chapter 3?
(a) Egotism.
(b) Talent.
(c) Specializations.
(d) Discrimination.

4. Which manuscript did Gardner send out which got a reply suggesting he cut it by a third?
(a) The Resurrection.
(b) Grendel.
(c) The Sunlight Dialogues.
(d) The Wreckage of Agathon.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of All the King's Men?

2. Gardner defines writing as a "____, like learning to ride a bicycle."

3. Hypersensitivity, stubbornness, and what are traits that make one want to be a writer and can also get in the way?

4. When inhibitions end in writer's block, it is a failure of what?

5. With what older colleague did Gardner publish an anthology of fiction at Chico College?

(see the answer key)

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