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

2. Of what author does Gardner say his heroes are clown-heroes knocked around by the universe?
(a) Hemingway.
(b) Kafka.
(c) James.
(d) Odets.

3. Which author does Gardner say has a style at parties to take to the floor at any cost, telling funny stories?
(a) Joyce Carol Oates.
(b) Truman Capote.
(c) Stanley Elkin.
(d) Bernard Malamud.

4. In what novel does Gardner note the rooftop scene as being one of surprise in Chapter 1?
(a) Emma.
(b) Nicholas Nickleby.
(c) Crime and Punishment.
(d) Seize the Day.

5. What author responded to the question of why she wrote fiction, "Because I'm good at it"?
(a) Sylvia Plath.
(b) Flannery O'Connor.
(c) Edith Wharton.
(d) Joyce Carol Oates.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which author went to Paris and studied with one of the shrewdest writers, Gertrude Stein?

2. Where does Gardner teach workshops, as he claims it has a good program for fiction?

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

4. In what novel does Levin propose to Kitty, as cited in Chapter 1?

5. In Chapter 1, Gardner states that "In a literary culture where the very notion of a 'masterpiece' is commonly thought" what?

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