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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Faith.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. If a writer agrees with the notes an editor sends, he should do what with his manuscript?
(a) Send it elsewhere.
(b) Burn it.
(c) Ask another opinion.
(d) Revise it.

2. What is one of the most important things for a young writer to have, according to Gardner in Chapter 2?
(a) Religion.
(b) Family.
(c) Ego.
(d) Community.

3. What teacher and poet is quoted as saying, "My object is to catch right now what will embarrass my students when they look at their poetry ten years from now"?
(a) Julia Roberts.
(b) Robert Frost.
(c) Allen Ginsberg.
(d) Dave Smith.

4. Which title does Raymond Carver say is the only one he recalls of John Gardner's manuscripts in the Forward?
(a) Grendel.
(b) The Life and Times of Chaucer.
(c) The King's Indian.
(d) Nickel Mountain.

5. What does Gardner claim is helpful, if it can be kept in partial control, to keep the novelist driven?
(a) A psychological wound.
(b) A tendency to drink.
(c) A tendency to prove himself.
(d) A need for love.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which magazine does Gardner refer to as elegant and rather timid, perfect for selling clothes and fine china?

2. Fiction must begin with a rough sketch of characters and behaviors and then is gradually what?

3. Where did Raymond Carver move to Chico, California from?

4. What is the name of the man who moves next door to his teenage daughter in Gardner's hypothetical story in Chapter 1?

5. According to Gardner, most rejected fiction is rejected because it's not what?

(see the answer key)

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