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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Publishing houses tend to have what, according to Gardner in Chapter 3?
(a) Egotism.
(b) Specializations.
(c) Discrimination.
(d) Talent.

2. What word does Gardner use to describe that teaching which tends to emphasize theme and design over feeling and authentic narrative?
(a) Workshoppy.
(b) Developmental.
(c) Amateur.
(d) Inverted.

3. What is one of the only programs for funding for writers on the governmental level?
(a) The Fulbright Society.
(b) National Endowment of the Arts.
(c) National Enlistment of Writers.
(d) National Writer Workshop.

4. In Chapter 2, Gardner writes that the "true young novelist has the stamina, patience, and single-mindedness of a" what?
(a) Elephant.
(b) Mother.
(c) Draft horse.
(d) Mule.

5. Theoretically, there is no need for what in the writer, for children build sand castles and ministers pray over the sick without blockages?
(a) Talent.
(b) Writer's block.
(c) Structure.
(d) Overthinking.

Short Answer Questions

1. What author once remarked "the best way to become a writer is to go off and write"?

2. Gardner writes in Chapter 3, "Young writers want to ____ because they're unsure of themselves."

3. What class, at least in America, does Gardner say most writers come from?

4. Where did David Segal go after New American Library?

5. Who developed the style of the "epiphany story" in The Dubliners?

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