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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Faith.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When inhibitions end in writer's block, it is a failure of what?
(a) Ability.
(b) Will.
(c) Talent.
(d) Dexterity.

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

5. What other author did Herman Melville have among his circle of friends?
(a) Conrad.
(b) Joyce.
(c) London.
(d) Hawthorne.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Garner always wear, according to Raymond Carver in the Forward?

2. Gardner states in Chapter 1 that Canterbury Tales is a disguised what?

3. What author does Gardner remark has a bad habit of breaking the vivid and continuous dream by pouring on the rhetoric in Chapter 1?

4. Which writing teacher and author is famous for the energy and relative success with which he pushes his students' work at appropriate editors?

5. What author does Gardner say was known to arrive at a party and sit for ten minutes or more staring at guests and not answering when people addressed him in Chapter1?

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