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

2. Which is one of the great graduate programs for writers that Gardner refers to in Chapter 2?
(a) Carnegie Mellon.
(b) Stanford.
(c) Oxford.
(d) NYU.

3. What teacher and poet is quoted as saying, "My object is to catch right now what will embarrass my students when they look at their poetry ten years from now"?
(a) Julia Roberts.
(b) Robert Frost.
(c) Dave Smith.
(d) Allen Ginsberg.

4. Where does Gardner teach workshops, as he claims it has a good program for fiction?
(a) NYU.
(b) Emery.
(c) Oxford.
(d) Binghamton.

5. Which writing teacher and author is famous for the energy and relative success with which he pushes his students' work at appropriate editors?
(a) Raymond Carver.
(b) Sean Howard.
(c) Robert Coover.
(d) James Dickinson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which magazine does Gardner refer to as elegant and rather timid, perfect for selling clothes and fine china?

2. What is the title of Chapter 3?

3. Gardner writes in Chapter 1 that if one studies with whom, does he learn that Shakespeare is better than Mickey Spillane?

4. What publishing house did Gardner send Grendel to first?

5. What author does Gardner say was known to arrive at a party and sit for ten minutes or more staring at guests and not answering when people addressed him in Chapter1?

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