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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 is the name of the man who moves next door to his teenage daughter in Gardner's hypothetical story in Chapter 1?
(a) Bill.
(b) Frank.
(c) Bob.
(d) James.

2. Which is one of the great graduate programs for writers that Gardner refers to in Chapter 2?
(a) Carnegie Mellon.
(b) NYU.
(c) Stanford.
(d) Oxford.

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

4. Gardner claims in Chapter 3 that rejection by an agent means more than rejection by a what?
(a) Writer.
(b) Teacher.
(c) Editor.
(d) Lawyer.

5. Where does the manuscript go after the literary editor is finished with it?
(a) Author.
(b) Copy editor.
(c) Publisher.
(d) Typesetter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of The Turn of the Screw?

2. What does Gardner claim is helpful, if it can be kept in partial control, to keep the novelist driven?

3. The two things that keep the common reader turning the pages, according to Gardner are story or what?

4. What did Garner always wear, according to Raymond Carver in the Forward?

5. Gardner writes in Chapter 1 that if one studies with whom, does he learn that Shakespeare is better than Mickey Spillane?

(see the answer key)

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