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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. Gardner writes that authors are almost never satisfied with the ____ job their publishers do.
(a) Promotion.
(b) Editing.
(c) Reworking.
(d) Preselling.

2. Gardner notes in Chapter 1 that Mercutio's madness is fantastic and what?
(a) Ironic.
(b) Justified.
(c) Unbalanced.
(d) Phantasmic.

3. Gardner states in Chapter 2, "If there are objective laws of ______, not all of theme apply in every instance, and none of them finally have to do with purpose."
(a) Aesthetics.
(b) Opinion.
(c) Art.
(d) Writing.

4. Gardner refers to boring, worn out language as being what kind of mask?
(a) Need-for-approval.
(b) Hamlet.
(c) Dramatic.
(d) Pollyanna.

5. Who is the author of Piers Plowman?
(a) Miller.
(b) Salinger.
(c) Joyce.
(d) Langland.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gardner writes in Chapter 2 that in a bad workshop, the teacher takes the place of the student's what?

2. What author responded to the question of why she wrote fiction, "Because I'm good at it"?

3. Who did Gardner work with as a publisher following the death of Segal?

4. Gardner states in Chapter 3 that a writer has to go far out of his way to turn his what against him?

5. Who wrote the book 1984?

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