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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the book 1984?
(a) Ray Bradbury.
(b) J. D. Salinger.
(c) Thomas Pynchon.
(d) George Orwell.

2. In Chapter 2, Gardner notes that "The wide range of opinion in a class affords increases the writer's chance of getting a _____."
(a) Fair hearing.
(b) Full listening.
(c) True response.
(d) Opinion.

3. Gardner claims in Chapter 3 that rejection by an agent means more than rejection by a what?
(a) Teacher.
(b) Writer.
(c) Editor.
(d) Lawyer.

4. Who wrote The World According to Garp?
(a) Michael James.
(b) George Glass.
(c) John Irving.
(d) Raymond Carver.

5. Which title does Raymond Carver say is the only one he recalls of John Gardner's manuscripts in the Forward?
(a) The Life and Times of Chaucer.
(b) The King's Indian.
(c) Nickel Mountain.
(d) Grendel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which sci-fi author wrote A Canticle for Liebowitz?

2. Gardner writes in Chapter 4, "In magic as in other things, ____ brings success."

3. What publishing house did Gardner send Grendel to first?

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

5. Where had John Gardner taught before Chico State College?

(see the answer key)

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