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On Becoming a Novelist Quiz

John Gardner
This Study Guide consists of approximately 29 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of On Becoming a Novelist.

On Becoming a Novelist Quiz

John Gardner
This Study Guide consists of approximately 29 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of On Becoming a Novelist.

Take our free On Becoming a Novelist quiz below, with 25 multiple choice questions that help you test your knowledge. Determine which chapters, themes and styles you already know and what you need to study for your upcoming essay, midterm, or final exam. Take the free quiz now!

Directions: Click on the correct answer.

Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

Gardner writes that one editor insisted on changing his punctuation based on some rule he learned where? (from Chapter 3, Publication and Survival)

2.

As when learning to bicycle, writer should take one thing at a time: perfect a passage of description, then a passage of dialog, then move to the larger units of what? (from Chapter 4, Faith)

3.

What is one of the great questions of the moment which is addressed in The World According to Garp? (from Chapter 3, Publication and Survival)

4.

Gardner states in Chapter 2 that the first value of a writer's workshop is that it makes the young writer feel not abnormal but what? (from Chapter 2, The Writer's Training and Education)

5.

A writer must always start with a careful what? (from Chapter 4, Faith)

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