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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 notes in Chapter 1 that Mercutio's madness is fantastic and what?
(a) Phantasmic.
(b) Unbalanced.
(c) Justified.
(d) Ironic.

2. Which writer, although thought of as a solitary genius, spent time working in close community with Ford Maddox Ford?
(a) Stephen Crane.
(b) Joseph Conrad.
(c) Henry James.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

3. Who wrote the book 1984?
(a) Ray Bradbury.
(b) George Orwell.
(c) J. D. Salinger.
(d) Thomas Pynchon.

4. With what older colleague did Gardner publish an anthology of fiction at Chico College?
(a) Lennis Dunlap.
(b) Michael Ewing.
(c) James Fenway.
(d) David Wellesley.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the only programs for funding for writers on the governmental level?

2. Who wrote Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy?

3. What was Gardner's first wife's name?

4. What author of experimental fiction teaches at Rice?

5. What author does Gardner remark has a persistent mean streak in his writing?

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