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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Gardner writes in Chapter 3, "Young writers want to ____ because they're unsure of themselves."
(a) Go to school.
(b) Read.
(c) Publish.
(d) Study.

4. Gardner states in Chapter 2, "If there are objective laws of ______, not all of theme apply in every instance, and none of them finally have to do with purpose."
(a) Art.
(b) Aesthetics.
(c) Writing.
(d) Opinion.

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

6. What author responded to the question of why she wrote fiction, "Because I'm good at it"?
(a) Sylvia Plath.
(b) Joyce Carol Oates.
(c) Edith Wharton.
(d) Flannery O'Connor.

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

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

9. Who did Gardner work with as a publisher following the death of Segal?
(a) Pantera.
(b) Grogin.
(c) Gottlieb.
(d) Morrison.

10. Where does the manuscript of a book go after the copy editor is finished with it?
(a) Publisher.
(b) Author.
(c) Typesetter.
(d) Literary editor.

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

12. 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) Full listening.
(c) Fair hearing.
(d) Opinion.

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

14. The main commitment of famous writers as teachers is what?
(a) The star students.
(b) Their own work.
(c) The poor students.
(d) Their students.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gardner compares the first thrill of achievement of the writer to that of an oboist or what?

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

3. 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"?

4. If a writer agrees with the notes an editor sends, he should do what with his manuscript?

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

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