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

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

3. In Chapter 2, Gardner states, "A writer does not become better by being ____."
(a) Scorned.
(b) Beaten.
(c) Pandered to.
(d) Adored.

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

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

6. Where does the manuscript go after the literary editor is finished with it?
(a) Publisher.
(b) Author.
(c) Copy editor.
(d) Typesetter.

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

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

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

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

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

12. Gardner states in Chapter 3 that a writer has to go far out of his way to turn his what against him?
(a) Spouse.
(b) Agent.
(c) Editor.
(d) Teacher.

13. Gardner writes that one editor insisted on changing his punctuation based on some rule he learned where?
(a) Rutgers.
(b) Columbia.
(c) Yale.
(d) NYU.

14. Which writing teacher and author is famous for the energy and relative success with which he pushes his students' work at appropriate editors?
(a) James Dickinson.
(b) Raymond Carver.
(c) Sean Howard.
(d) Robert Coover.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What author once remarked "the best way to become a writer is to go off and write"?

2. 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?

3. What is the title of Chapter 3?

4. Who does Gardner say one can be fooled by the nature of imagining that the best way to become a writer is to be a seaman or a lumberjack?

5. What author of experimental fiction teaches at Rice?

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