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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 painter does Gardner remark in Chapter 1 never sold a painting in his life?
(a) Picasso.
(b) Monet.
(c) Van Gogh.
(d) Matisse.

2. What is the title of Chapter 4?
(a) Publication and Survival.
(b) On Becoming a Novelist.
(c) Final Words.
(d) Faith.

3. What name does Gardner assign to the teenage daughter whose unknown father moves next door in Chapter 1?
(a) Wanda.
(b) Laura.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Michelle.

4. According to Gardner, most rejected fiction is rejected because it's not what?
(a) Subversive.
(b) Modern enough.
(c) Good.
(d) Symbolic.

5. Language is not _____ and often drives the writer to meanings that he does not know are coming.
(a) Active.
(b) Meaningful.
(c) Plural.
(d) Passive.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which philosopher maintained that nothing a writer writes means anything, "all the words are a lunatic blithering," since all language is by nature false and misleading?

3. What does Gardner say that the question of "do you write with a pen, a typewriter, or what?" is really talking about?

4. Which writer, although thought of as a solitary genius, spent time working in close community with Ford Maddox Ford?

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

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