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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 are the long pages from the typesetter, marked up by the proofreader for typographical errors?
(a) Manuscript.
(b) Novel-preform.
(c) Script.
(d) Galleys.

2. In what novel does Levin propose to Kitty, as cited in Chapter 1?
(a) Anna Karenina.
(b) Emma.
(c) Crime and Punishment.
(d) Nicholas Nickleby.

3. Who developed the style of the "epiphany story" in The Dubliners?
(a) Conrad.
(b) Joyce.
(c) McKinley.
(d) Beckett.

4. In Chapter 1, Gardner writes that one is unable to write for everyone, "try to win the audience both of Saul Bellow and" whom?
(a) Anton Chekhov.
(b) Stephen King.
(c) Charles Dickens.
(d) James Joyce.

5. Gardner states that in the works of Shakespeare, language always serves character and what?
(a) Action.
(b) Aesthetic.
(c) Wit.
(d) Irony.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gardner states in Chapter 1 that Canterbury Tales is a disguised what?

2. The narration of Gardner's novel excerpt in Chapter 4 follows the character of whom?

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

4. Gardner writes in Chapter 2 that in a bad workshop, the teacher allows or even encourages what?

5. What author does Gardner remark has a persistent mean streak in his writing?

(see the answer key)

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