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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. What psychologist suggests that Jack and the Beanstalk is about penis envy?
(a) Carl Jung.
(b) Madison Thomas.
(c) Bruno Bettelheim.
(d) Sigmund Freud.

2. What publishing house did Gardner send Grendel to first?
(a) Penguin.
(b) Alfred A. Knopf.
(c) Hannigan and Hannigan.
(d) Simon and Schulster.

3. Gardner claims he has been happy writing since the age of what?
(a) 8.
(b) 12.
(c) 6.
(d) 16.

4. 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) Faulkner.
(b) Salinger.
(c) Joyce.
(d) Hemingway.

5. Whose disguise in Jane Eyre does Gardner comment on as surprising in Chapter 1?
(a) Mr. Darby.
(b) Mr. Bryg.
(c) Mr. Wolverton.
(d) Mr. Rochester.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Gardner say that good fiction starts off in the reader's head?

3. What experimental writer does Gardner mention having been moved and delighted by in Chapter 2?

4. What does M.F.A. stand for?

5. Where does Gardner teach workshops, as he claims it has a good program for fiction?

(see the answer key)

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