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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. 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) Ask another opinion.
(d) Burn it.

2. To which editor at New American Library did Gardner send The Sunlight Diaries?
(a) Bob Gottlieb.
(b) David Segal.
(c) Michael Harper.
(d) Harry Crews.

3. Gardner claims in Chapter 3 that rejection by an agent means more than rejection by a what?
(a) Writer.
(b) Editor.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Lawyer.

4. What does Gardner cite as one of the most respected publishers of novels?
(a) Alfred A. Knopf.
(b) Simon and Schuster.
(c) Harper and Row.
(d) Penguin.

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?
(a) Anthony Trollope.
(b) Moliere.
(c) James Joyce.
(d) F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gardner suggests that the dazzling poetry of Mercutio's Queen Mab speech is not the same poetry that who speaks?

2. What does Gardner compare to the floors and structural supports in a fine old mansion in Chapter 1?

3. What was William Gass publishing at New American Library?

4. The two things that keep the common reader turning the pages, according to Gardner are story or what?

5. Gardner writes in Chapter 3, "Young writers want to ____ because they're unsure of themselves."

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