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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. Who wrote Bartelby the Scrivener?
(a) Ernest Hemingway.
(b) James Joyce.
(c) Herman Melville.
(d) Thomas Mann.

2. Who is the author of Death in Venice?
(a) Thomas Mann.
(b) Herman Melville.
(c) William Shakespeare.
(d) Clifford Odets.

3. Gardner states in Chapter 3 that a writer has to go far out of his way to turn his what against him?
(a) Editor.
(b) Agent.
(c) Spouse.
(d) Teacher.

4. What book was Gardner writing when he remembered the altered sense coming over him while in the last chapter?
(a) October Light.
(b) The Resurrection.
(c) Nickel Mountain.
(d) Grendel.

5. What author does Gardner remark has a bad habit of breaking the vivid and continuous dream by pouring on the rhetoric in Chapter 1?
(a) Hemingway.
(b) Salinger.
(c) Joyce.
(d) Faulkner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What other author did Herman Melville have among his circle of friends?

2. Who wrote the book 1984?

3. Where does the manuscript of a book go after the copy editor is finished with it?

4. What does Gardner compare to the floors and structural supports in a fine old mansion in Chapter 1?

5. Gardner states in Chapter 3 that for a young novelist, an agent is all but what?

(see the answer key)

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