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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. In what novel does Gardner note the rooftop scene as being one of surprise in Chapter 1?
(a) Seize the Day.
(b) Emma.
(c) Crime and Punishment.
(d) Nicholas Nickleby.

2. What literary magazine does Gardner publish?
(a) Writer's Weekly.
(b) MRR.
(c) MSS.
(d) Reader's Digest.

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

4. What story of Robert Penn Warren's did Raymond Carver read in Gardner's class at Chico State College?
(a) "To Have and Have Not."
(b) "Ulysses."
(c) "Last of the Mohicans."
(d) "Blackberry Winter."

5. What author once remarked "the best way to become a writer is to go off and write"?
(a) London.
(b) Fitzgerald.
(c) Hemingway.
(d) Ibsen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book was Gardner writing when he remembered the altered sense coming over him while in the last chapter?

2. What author of Over the Edge does Gardner cite in Chapter 1?

3. Who did Gardner work with as a publisher following the death of Segal?

4. Which is one of the great graduate programs for writers that Gardner refers to in Chapter 2?

5. Who is the author of Piers Plowman?

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