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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 compares Melville's Moby Dick with what in Chapter 1?
(a) Emma.
(b) Omoo.
(c) To Have and Have Not.
(d) Anna Karanina.

2. Which author wrote A Tale of Two Cities?
(a) Bedlow.
(b) Melville.
(c) Steinbeck.
(d) Dickens.

3. Gardner states in Chapter 3 that one should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of whom?
(a) Writers.
(b) Poets.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Editors.

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

5. Who is cited as the head of the writing program at Johns Hopkins and favors new and strange styles?
(a) Kurt Vonnegut.
(b) John Barth.
(c) William Glass.
(d) Max Apple.

Short Answer Questions

1. What author does Gardner say was known to arrive at a party and sit for ten minutes or more staring at guests and not answering when people addressed him in Chapter1?

2. What psychologist suggests that Jack and the Beanstalk is about penis envy?

3. Publishing houses tend to have what, according to Gardner in Chapter 3?

4. In Chapter 2, Gardner writes that writing, "like the study of classical piano, is not practical but _____."

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

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