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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. Where does the manuscript of a book go after the copy editor is finished with it?
(a) Publisher.
(b) Typesetter.
(c) Author.
(d) Literary editor.

2. In Chapter 2, Gardner writes that the "true young novelist has the stamina, patience, and single-mindedness of a" what?
(a) Elephant.
(b) Draft horse.
(c) Mother.
(d) Mule.

3. What author of experimental fiction teaches at Rice?
(a) Michael James.
(b) Thomas Pinchon.
(c) Kurt Vonnegut.
(d) Max Apple.

4. What does Gardner say that good fiction starts off in the reader's head?
(a) A nightmare.
(b) A hunger for more.
(c) A continuous dream.
(d) An addiction.

5. If a writer agrees with the notes an editor sends, he should do what with his manuscript?
(a) Revise it.
(b) Burn it.
(c) Send it elsewhere.
(d) Ask another opinion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose disguise in Jane Eyre does Gardner comment on as surprising in Chapter 1?

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

3. What teacher and poet is quoted as saying, "My object is to catch right now what will embarrass my students when they look at their poetry ten years from now"?

4. Gardner refers to boring, worn out language as being what kind of mask?

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

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