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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. Who is the author of The Turn of the Screw?
(a) Henry James.
(b) James Joyce.
(c) Dylan Thomas.
(d) Henry Melville.

2. Who recommended Gardner at New American Library?
(a) James Segal.
(b) Michael Harper.
(c) William Gass.
(d) Harry Crews.

3. Which author does Gardner state had "gazelle eyes" which dominated the room in Chapter 1?
(a) Joyce Carol Oates.
(b) Anthony Trollope.
(c) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(d) James Joyce.

4. Of whose writing does Gardner say that no reader can doubt the impulse to capture real life, "the special quality of country-Welsh craziness"?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) John Updike.
(c) Dylan Thomas.
(d) Samuel Beckett.

5. What name does Gardner assign to the teenage daughter whose unknown father moves next door in Chapter 1?
(a) Laura.
(b) Michelle.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Wanda.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gardner writes that one editor insisted on changing his punctuation based on some rule he learned where?

2. Who is the author of Crime and Punishment?

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

4. Which writer, although thought of as a solitary genius, spent time working in close community with Ford Maddox Ford?

5. Gardner claims he has been happy writing since the age of what?

(see the answer key)

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