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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 claims in Chapter 3 that rejection by an agent means more than rejection by a what?
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Editor.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Writer.

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

3. Who recommended Gardner at New American Library?
(a) William Gass.
(b) Harry Crews.
(c) Michael Harper.
(d) James Segal.

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?
(a) Accepted.
(b) Enlightened.
(c) Virtuous.
(d) Smart.

5. What publishing house did Gardner send Grendel to first?
(a) Alfred A. Knopf.
(b) Simon and Schulster.
(c) Hannigan and Hannigan.
(d) Penguin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gardner writes that authors are almost never satisfied with the ____ job their publishers do.

2. Gardner compares the first thrill of achievement of the writer to that of an oboist or what?

3. Who is the author of Crime and Punishment?

4. To whose poetry and prose had Gardner made allusions to in the novel Grendel?

5. What author once remarked "the best way to become a writer is to go off and write"?

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