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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. If a writer agrees with the notes an editor sends, he should do what with his manuscript?
(a) Send it elsewhere.
(b) Revise it.
(c) Burn it.
(d) Ask another opinion.

2. What author of Over the Edge does Gardner cite in Chapter 1?
(a) Franz Kafka.
(b) Kurt Vonnegut.
(c) Harlan Ellison.
(d) James Joyce.

3. Gardner suggests that the dazzling poetry of Mercutio's Queen Mab speech is not the same poetry that who speaks?
(a) Petrucio.
(b) Macbeth.
(c) Juliet.
(d) Hamlet.

4. What is one of the philosophers who has maintained that words inevitably distance us from the brute existence, according to Gardner in Chapter 1?
(a) Plato.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Kierkegaard.
(d) Nietzsche.

5. Gardner defines writing as a "____, like learning to ride a bicycle."
(a) Process.
(b) Talent.
(c) Skill.
(d) Ability.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the honest answer to the question most young writer's ask of "Do I have what it takes to be a writer?" according to Gardner?

2. What is the title of Chapter 3?

3. The study of what can give the young writer a clear sense of why our age is so troubled?

4. What author does Gardner say has a deep misanthropic mistrust 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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