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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which author went to Paris and studied with one of the shrewdest writers, Gertrude Stein?
(a) Ernest Hemingway.
(b) Stephen Crane.
(c) Henry James.
(d) F. Scott Fitzgerald.

2. Where is one of the oldest and best known writing workshops?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Kansas.
(c) New Hampshire.
(d) Iowa.

3. What is the name of the writer's conference where Gardner has frequently worked with writing assistants?
(a) Silver Mountain.
(b) Peabody.
(c) Last Dinner.
(d) Bread Loaf.

4. Gardner notes in Chapter 3 that all second-rate stories tend to do what?
(a) Get published.
(b) Sound alike.
(c) Get acclaim.
(d) Get rejected.

5. Letters to publishing houses should ideally be addressed to whom?
(a) A particular editor.
(b) The head editor.
(c) Any editor.
(d) The assistant editor.

6. 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) Robert Frost.
(b) Dave Smith.
(c) Allen Ginsberg.
(d) Julia Roberts.

7. What are the long pages from the typesetter, marked up by the proofreader for typographical errors?
(a) Manuscript.
(b) Script.
(c) Novel-preform.
(d) Galleys.

8. Which manuscript did Gardner send out which got a reply suggesting he cut it by a third?
(a) Grendel.
(b) The Sunlight Dialogues.
(c) The Wreckage of Agathon.
(d) The Resurrection.

9. Which magazine does Gardner refer to as elegant and rather timid, perfect for selling clothes and fine china?
(a) The New Yorker.
(b) The New York Times Book Review.
(c) The Atlantic.
(d) The Oxford Journal.

10. What does Gardner say brings together groups of young writers who, even in the absence of superb teachers, can be of help to one another?
(a) Seminars.
(b) Colleges.
(c) Writers' workshops.
(d) Graduate programs.

11. Gardner writes in Chapter 2 that in a bad workshop, the teacher takes the place of the student's what?
(a) Assimilation.
(b) Ability to think.
(c) Internal critic.
(d) Critical imagination.

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

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

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

15. What is one of the more reputedly good magazines that Gardner suggests publication in?
(a) Maxim.
(b) Oxford Book Review.
(c) Georgia Review.
(d) Reader's Digest.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did ancient poets get around means of survival, if not attaching themselves to kings?

3. Who recommended Gardner at New American Library?

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

5. In Chapter 3, Gardner writes, "One hears the complaint that conferences lead to a kind of writer ____."

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