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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Gardner suggest writing to for information on reliable agents?
(a) AFJI.
(b) ILAA.
(c) NROP.
(d) DRAA.

2. 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) Enlightened.
(c) Accepted.
(d) Virtuous.

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

4. 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) Writers' workshops.
(c) Graduate programs.
(d) Colleges.

5. Gardner writes in Chapter 2 that in the workshop he is teaching he encountered a story which he hopes to publish titled what?
(a) "Thoughts."
(b) "Exit."
(c) "Tomorrow."
(d) "Jason."

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

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

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

9. 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.

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

11. What literary magazine does Gardner publish?
(a) Reader's Digest.
(b) MSS.
(c) Writer's Weekly.
(d) MRR.

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

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

14. Where did David Segal go after New American Library?
(a) Harper.
(b) Collins.
(c) Simon and Schuster.
(d) Penguin.

15. Gardner claims in Chapter 3 that rejection by an agent means more than rejection by a what?
(a) Editor.
(b) Writer.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Lawyer.

Short Answer Questions

1. The main commitment of famous writers as teachers is what?

2. In Chapter 2, what does Gardner say the world has far more than it needs?

3. Which magazine does Gardner refer to as elegant and rather timid, perfect for selling clothes and fine china?

4. To which editor at New American Library did Gardner send The Sunlight Diaries?

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

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