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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 3?
(a) The Writer's Nature.
(b) Publication and Survival.
(c) The Writer's Training and Education.
(d) Faith.

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

3. Gardner compares the first thrill of achievement of the writer to that of an oboist or what?
(a) Actor.
(b) Pianist.
(c) Gambler.
(d) Painter.

4. What does Gardner cite as one of the most respected publishers of novels?
(a) Harper and Row.
(b) Simon and Schuster.
(c) Alfred A. Knopf.
(d) Penguin.

5. Chapter 3 states that getting any letter at all from an editor is a mark of what?
(a) Interest.
(b) Quality.
(c) Luck.
(d) Ability.

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

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

8. What does M.F.A. stand for?
(a) Master of Fine Arts.
(b) Master of Formal Academy.
(c) Master of Fulton Academy.
(d) Master of Formal Architecture.

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

10. What was William Gass publishing at New American Library?
(a) The Wreckage of Agathon.
(b) Grendel.
(c) The Sunlight Dialogues.
(d) Omensetter's Luck.

11. What organization does Gardner suggest for help in locating good teachers, advice on fellowships, etc.?
(a) Poets & Writers.
(b) ACII.
(c) New Yorker.
(d) MFA programs.

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

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

14. Who does Gardner say one can be fooled by the nature of imagining that the best way to become a writer is to be a seaman or a lumberjack?
(a) Jack London.
(b) Thomas Pinchon.
(c) Jack Frost.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

15. In Chapter 2, Gardner states, "A writer does not become better by being ____."
(a) Beaten.
(b) Pandered to.
(c) Adored.
(d) Scorned.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gardner states in Chapter 2 that the first value of a writer's workshop is that it makes the young writer feel not abnormal but what?

2. Letters to publishing houses should ideally be addressed to whom?

3. Gardner notes in Chapter 3 that all second-rate stories tend to do what?

4. Where does Gardner teach workshops, as he claims it has a good program for fiction?

5. Gardner states in Chapter 2 that an individual style is developed as much by resistance as by what?

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