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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Faith.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one of the more reputedly good magazines that Gardner suggests publication in?
(a) Reader's Digest.
(b) Georgia Review.
(c) Maxim.
(d) Oxford Book Review.

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

3. Sometimes the writer's desire to be original gets in the way or the need to be superhuman or to overcome what?
(a) His abilities.
(b) His faith.
(c) His competitive nature.
(d) Psychological wounds.

4. The narration of Gardner's novel excerpt in Chapter 4 follows the character of whom?
(a) Jack Ruston.
(b) John Smith.
(c) James Page.
(d) Jeremy Ross.

5. What other author did Herman Melville have among his circle of friends?
(a) London.
(b) Hawthorne.
(c) Joyce.
(d) Conrad.

Short Answer Questions

1. What class, at least in America, does Gardner say most writers come from?

2. Gardner claims in Chapter 3 that rejection by an agent means more than rejection by a what?

3. What does Gardner cite as one of the most respected publishers of novels?

4. Hypersensitivity, stubbornness, and what are traits that make one want to be a writer and can also get in the way?

5. Who is the author of The Turn of the Screw?

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