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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. According to Gardner, most rejected fiction is rejected because it's not what?
(a) Subversive.
(b) Good.
(c) Symbolic.
(d) Modern enough.

2. What does Gardner compare to the floors and structural supports in a fine old mansion in Chapter 1?
(a) Action.
(b) Plot.
(c) Character.
(d) Theme.

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

4. Gardner states in Chapter 2 that an individual style is developed as much by resistance as by what?
(a) Adjustment.
(b) Emulation.
(c) Malleability.
(d) Contortion.

5. Who is the author of All the King's Men?
(a) Franz Kafka.
(b) William Faulkner.
(c) Robert Penn Warren.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Finnegan's Wake?

2. What does Gardner cite as one of the most respected publishers of novels?

3. Gardner refers to boring, worn out language as being what kind of mask?

4. What does Gardner say we call a writer who has less feeling for his characters than we feel they deserve?

5. Gardner states in Chapter 3 that for a young novelist, an agent is all but what?

(see the answer key)

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