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

2. The main commitment of famous writers as teachers is what?
(a) Their own work.
(b) Their students.
(c) The poor students.
(d) The star students.

3. What is, according to Gardner, the one quality in fiction that cannot be faked?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Honor.
(c) Strangeness.
(d) Love.

4. In Chapter 2, Gardner writes that writing, "like the study of classical piano, is not practical but _____."
(a) Superfluous.
(b) Aristocratic.
(c) Impulsive.
(d) Immediate.

5. Which author wrote A Tale of Two Cities?
(a) Steinbeck.
(b) Melville.
(c) Dickens.
(d) Bedlow.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gardner notes in Chapter 1 that all writing requires some measure of a ____ state.

2. What magazine does Gardner suggest for good literary work in Chapter 1?

3. Gardner writes in Chapter 2 that in the workshop he is teaching he encountered a story which he hopes to publish titled what?

4. Gardner states that in the works of Shakespeare, language always serves character and what?

5. Who is the author of Piers Plowman?

(see the answer key)

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