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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who was the first editor to take interest in Gardner's work?
(a) Gerald Kimble.
(b) James Growder.
(c) Jack Smith.
(d) Bob Gottlieb.

3. If a writer agrees with the notes an editor sends, he should do what with his manuscript?
(a) Send it elsewhere.
(b) Ask another opinion.
(c) Revise it.
(d) Burn it.

4. Gardner claims in Chapter 3 that rejection by an agent means more than rejection by a what?
(a) Teacher.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Editor.
(d) Writer.

5. Gardner writes that one editor insisted on changing his punctuation based on some rule he learned where?
(a) Columbia.
(b) Rutgers.
(c) Yale.
(d) NYU.

6. In the world of grants, Gardner writes in Chapter 2, who has a better chance than other artists?
(a) Actors.
(b) Painters.
(c) Musicians.
(d) Writers.

7. Where does Gardner teach workshops, as he claims it has a good program for fiction?
(a) Binghamton.
(b) Emery.
(c) Oxford.
(d) NYU.

8. In Chapter 3, Gardner writes, "One hears the complaint that conferences lead to a kind of writer ____."
(a) Ego-stroking.
(b) Promotion.
(c) Sniveling.
(d) Incest.

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

10. Where is one of the oldest and best known writing workshops?
(a) Kansas.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) Iowa.
(d) New Hampshire.

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

12. Gardner writes in Chapter 2 that in a bad workshop, the teacher allows or even encourages what?
(a) Attack.
(b) Bad spelling.
(c) Bad grammar.
(d) Support.

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

14. What other author did Herman Melville have among his circle of friends?
(a) London.
(b) Hawthorne.
(c) Conrad.
(d) Joyce.

15. To which editor at New American Library did Gardner send The Sunlight Diaries?
(a) Bob Gottlieb.
(b) David Segal.
(c) Harry Crews.
(d) Michael Harper.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Gardner writes in Chapter 2 that in a bad workshop, the teacher takes the place of the student's what?

3. Chapter 3 states that getting any letter at all from an editor is a mark of what?

4. Gardner states in Chapter 2 that an individual style is developed as much by resistance as by what?

5. Gardner notes in Chapter 3 that all second-rate stories tend to do what?

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