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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 the name of the writer's conference where Gardner has frequently worked with writing assistants?
(a) Bread Loaf.
(b) Last Dinner.
(c) Silver Mountain.
(d) Peabody.

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

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

4. 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.

5. To which editor at New American Library did Gardner send The Sunlight Diaries?
(a) David Segal.
(b) Harry Crews.
(c) Michael Harper.
(d) Bob Gottlieb.

Short Answer Questions

1. What other author did Herman Melville have among his circle of friends?

2. What word does Gardner use to describe that teaching which tends to emphasize theme and design over feeling and authentic narrative?

3. Which author went to Paris and studied with one of the shrewdest writers, Gertrude Stein?

4. Gardner writes that one editor insisted on changing his punctuation based on some rule he learned where?

5. What was William Gass publishing at New American Library?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Gardner remark about the loyalty of an editor?

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

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

5. What does Gardner cite as the assets of having an agent in Chapter 3?

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

7. How does Gardner explain the detailed letter from an editor and the author's choice of revision?

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

9. What does Gardner say of supporting oneself as a writer in Chapter 3?

10. What does Gardner say of editors in Chapter 3? What can one do to appeal to an editor?

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