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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 is the author of All the King's Men?
(a) Franz Kafka.
(b) William Faulkner.
(c) Robert Penn Warren.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

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

3. Gardner notes in Chapter 3 that all second-rate stories tend to do what?
(a) Get rejected.
(b) Get published.
(c) Get acclaim.
(d) Sound alike.

4. What painter does Gardner remark in Chapter 1 never sold a painting in his life?
(a) Picasso.
(b) Van Gogh.
(c) Matisse.
(d) Monet.

5. How did ancient poets get around means of survival, if not attaching themselves to kings?
(a) Farming.
(b) Writing.
(c) Teaching.
(d) Begging.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the more reputedly good magazines that Gardner suggests publication in?

2. Which sci-fi author wrote A Canticle for Liebowitz?

3. Gardner writes in Chapter 2 that in a bad workshop, the teacher takes the place of the student's what?

4. Where does the manuscript go after the literary editor is finished with it?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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