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

2. What does Gardner say brings together groups of young writers who, even in the absence of superb teachers, can be of help to one another?
(a) Seminars.
(b) Graduate programs.
(c) Writers' workshops.
(d) Colleges.

3. What is one of the most important things for a young writer to have, according to Gardner in Chapter 2?
(a) Community.
(b) Religion.
(c) Family.
(d) Ego.

4. What is, according to Gardner, the one quality in fiction that cannot be faked?
(a) Love.
(b) Strangeness.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Honor.

5. What is one of the great questions of the moment which is addressed in The World According to Garp?
(a) Environment.
(b) Globalization.
(c) Feminism.
(d) Race relations.

Short Answer Questions

1. What organization does Gardner suggest for help in locating good teachers, advice on fellowships, etc.?

2. What does Gardner claim is helpful, if it can be kept in partial control, to keep the novelist driven?

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

4. What name does Gardner assign to the teenage daughter whose unknown father moves next door in Chapter 1?

5. What author does Gardner say was known to arrive at a party and sit for ten minutes or more staring at guests and not answering when people addressed him in Chapter1?

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