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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one of the great questions of the moment which is addressed in The World According to Garp?
(a) Feminism.
(b) Environment.
(c) Race relations.
(d) Globalization.

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

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

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 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) Enlightened.
(b) Virtuous.
(c) Smart.
(d) Accepted.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, Gardner writes that writing, "like the study of classical piano, is not practical but _____."

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

3. Gardner writes in Chapter 2 that in the workshop he is teaching he encountered a story which he hopes to publish titled what?

4. Chapter 3 states that getting any letter at all from an editor is a mark of what?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is writing usually rejected, according to Gardner?

2. What does Gardner write of writers' workshops in Chapter 2?

3. Describe some of the qualities of bad writing workshops in Chapter 2.

4. Are all good writers good teachers? What does Gardner say of this in Chapter 2?

5. What does Gardner say regarding the study of philosophy and psychology?

6. What does Gardner write about rejection letters in Chapter 3?

7. What should the successful teacher do for his writing students, according to Gardner?

8. What does Gardner write of the standard technique of teaching writing in Chapter 2?

9. What does Gardner say in the beginning of Chapter 2 regarding author education and state funding?

10. Why must a teacher avoid projecting their aesthetic view on writers?

(see the answer keys)

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