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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does M.F.A. stand for?
(a) Master of Fulton Academy.
(b) Master of Formal Architecture.
(c) Master of Fine Arts.
(d) Master of Formal Academy.

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

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

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

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

7. According to Gardner, most rejected fiction is rejected because it's not what?
(a) Subversive.
(b) Modern enough.
(c) Good.
(d) Symbolic.

8. What does Gardner cite as one of the most respected publishers of novels?
(a) Penguin.
(b) Simon and Schuster.
(c) Harper and Row.
(d) Alfred A. Knopf.

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

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

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

12. Which is one of the great graduate programs for writers that Gardner refers to in Chapter 2?
(a) Oxford.
(b) NYU.
(c) Carnegie Mellon.
(d) Stanford.

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

14. 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) Opinion.
(d) Full listening.

15. Where does Gardner teach workshops, as he claims it has a good program for fiction?
(a) Oxford.
(b) NYU.
(c) Binghamton.
(d) Emery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the most important things for a young writer to have, according to Gardner in Chapter 2?

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

3. 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."

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

5. Where does the manuscript go after the literary editor is finished with it?

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