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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What other author did Herman Melville have among his circle of friends?
(a) London.
(b) Conrad.
(c) Hawthorne.
(d) Joyce.

4. Who was the first editor to take interest in Gardner's work?
(a) James Growder.
(b) Bob Gottlieb.
(c) Jack Smith.
(d) Gerald Kimble.

5. How did ancient poets get around means of survival, if not attaching themselves to kings?
(a) Begging.
(b) Teaching.
(c) Writing.
(d) Farming.

6. Who is cited as the head of the writing program at Johns Hopkins and favors new and strange styles?
(a) William Glass.
(b) Max Apple.
(c) Kurt Vonnegut.
(d) John Barth.

7. Gardner writes that authors are almost never satisfied with the ____ job their publishers do.
(a) Promotion.
(b) Reworking.
(c) Preselling.
(d) Editing.

8. What publishing house did Gardner send Grendel to first?
(a) Penguin.
(b) Simon and Schulster.
(c) Alfred A. Knopf.
(d) Hannigan and Hannigan.

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

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

11. The study of what can give the young writer a clear sense of why our age is so troubled?
(a) Drama.
(b) English.
(c) Philology.
(d) Philosophy.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What experimental writer does Gardner mention having been moved and delighted by in Chapter 2?

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

3. Where does the manuscript of a book go after the copy editor is finished with it?

4. What is the title of Chapter 3?

5. What author of experimental fiction teaches at Rice?

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