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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. Whose disguise in Jane Eyre does Gardner comment on as surprising in Chapter 1?
(a) Mr. Wolverton.
(b) Mr. Darby.
(c) Mr. Bryg.
(d) Mr. Rochester.

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

3. What does Gardner claim is helpful, if it can be kept in partial control, to keep the novelist driven?
(a) A psychological wound.
(b) A need for love.
(c) A tendency to drink.
(d) A tendency to prove himself.

4. What psychologist suggests that Jack and the Beanstalk is about penis envy?
(a) Sigmund Freud.
(b) Madison Thomas.
(c) Bruno Bettelheim.
(d) Carl Jung.

5. What is one of the only programs for funding for writers on the governmental level?
(a) National Endowment of the Arts.
(b) National Enlistment of Writers.
(c) National Writer Workshop.
(d) The Fulbright Society.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 3?

2. What author does Gardner remark has a persistent mean streak in his writing?

3. Gardner compares Melville's Moby Dick with what in Chapter 1?

4. What does M.F.A. stand for?

5. Who recommended Gardner at New American Library?

(see the answer key)

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