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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. In Chapter 2, what does Gardner say the world has far more than it needs?
(a) Authors.
(b) Publishers.
(c) Writing teachers.
(d) Editors.

2. Where did David Segal go after New American Library?
(a) Collins.
(b) Simon and Schuster.
(c) Penguin.
(d) Harper.

3. What author does Gardner remark has a bad habit of breaking the vivid and continuous dream by pouring on the rhetoric in Chapter 1?
(a) Salinger.
(b) Hemingway.
(c) Faulkner.
(d) Joyce.

4. How did ancient poets get around means of survival, if not attaching themselves to kings?
(a) Farming.
(b) Begging.
(c) Teaching.
(d) Writing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 3 states that getting any letter at all from an editor is a mark of what?

2. Gardner states in Chapter 3 that for a young novelist, an agent is all but what?

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

4. What author does Gardner say has a deep misanthropic mistrust in Chapter 1?

5. Where does the manuscript go after the literary editor is finished with it?

(see the answer key)

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