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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who recommended Gardner at New American Library?
(a) William Gass.
(b) James Segal.
(c) Harry Crews.
(d) Michael Harper.

2. Who wrote Bartelby the Scrivener?
(a) James Joyce.
(b) Herman Melville.
(c) Ernest Hemingway.
(d) Thomas Mann.

3. What author of experimental fiction teaches at Rice?
(a) Michael James.
(b) Kurt Vonnegut.
(c) Thomas Pinchon.
(d) Max Apple.

4. Which is one of the great graduate programs for writers that Gardner refers to in Chapter 2?
(a) NYU.
(b) Stanford.
(c) Carnegie Mellon.
(d) Oxford.

5. In Chapter 1, Gardner writes that one is unable to write for everyone, "try to win the audience both of Saul Bellow and" whom?
(a) Anton Chekhov.
(b) James Joyce.
(c) Stephen King.
(d) Charles Dickens.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 1, Gardner states that "In a literary culture where the very notion of a 'masterpiece' is commonly thought" what?

2. Theoretically, there is no need for what in the writer, for children build sand castles and ministers pray over the sick without blockages?

3. What are the long pages from the typesetter, marked up by the proofreader for typographical errors?

4. Chapter 3 states that getting any letter at all from an editor is a mark of what?

5. What is one of the more reputedly good magazines that Gardner suggests publication in?

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