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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 in Chapter 3, "Young writers want to ____ because they're unsure of themselves."
(a) Go to school.
(b) Publish.
(c) Study.
(d) Read.

2. Gardner writes that one editor insisted on changing his punctuation based on some rule he learned where?
(a) Yale.
(b) Columbia.
(c) Rutgers.
(d) NYU.

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

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) Hemingway.
(c) Joyce.
(d) Salinger.

5. What was Gardner's first wife's name?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Emily.
(c) Joan.
(d) Nora.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which manuscript did Gardner send out which got a reply suggesting he cut it by a third?

2. Who wrote Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy?

3. Who is one of the writers Gardner notes in Chapter 1 as having both a fine ear for language and also a fascination with the materials?

4. Which magazine does Gardner refer to as elegant and rather timid, perfect for selling clothes and fine china?

5. In Chapter 2, Gardner states, "A writer does not become better by being ____."

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