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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Chapter 2, Gardner notes that "The wide range of opinion in a class affords increases the writer's chance of getting a _____."
(a) True response.
(b) Fair hearing.
(c) Full listening.
(d) Opinion.

3. One of the favorite survival jobs of writers has in recent years been what?
(a) Office clerks.
(b) Night auditing.
(c) College teaching.
(d) High school teaching.

4. What author once remarked "the best way to become a writer is to go off and write"?
(a) Hemingway.
(b) London.
(c) Fitzgerald.
(d) Ibsen.

5. What experimental writer does Gardner mention having been moved and delighted by in Chapter 2?
(a) William Glass.
(b) Tom Robbins.
(c) James Joyce.
(d) Samuel Beckett.

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

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

8. In Chapter 3, Gardner writes, "One hears the complaint that conferences lead to a kind of writer ____."
(a) Sniveling.
(b) Promotion.
(c) Ego-stroking.
(d) Incest.

9. 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?
(a) Smart.
(b) Virtuous.
(c) Enlightened.
(d) Accepted.

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

11. Gardner states in Chapter 3 that for a young novelist, an agent is all but what?
(a) Useless.
(b) Indispensible.
(c) Healthy.
(d) Dangerous.

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

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

14. Gardner writes that one editor insisted on changing his punctuation based on some rule he learned where?
(a) Rutgers.
(b) Columbia.
(c) Yale.
(d) NYU.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What author of experimental fiction teaches at Rice?

2. Which writer, although thought of as a solitary genius, spent time working in close community with Ford Maddox Ford?

3. What word does Gardner use to describe that teaching which tends to emphasize theme and design over feeling and authentic narrative?

4. Gardner writes in Chapter 2 that in a bad workshop, the teacher takes the place of the student's what?

5. In the world of grants, Gardner writes in Chapter 2, who has a better chance than other artists?

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