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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Publication and Survival.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What masterpiece of James Joyce does Gardner suggest typing out for language growth in Chapter 1?
(a) "Finnegan's Wake."
(b) "The Wall."
(c) "Ulysses."
(d) "The Dead."

4. What painter does Gardner remark in Chapter 1 never sold a painting in his life?
(a) Van Gogh.
(b) Monet.
(c) Matisse.
(d) Picasso.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does M.F.A. stand for?

2. To which editor at New American Library did Gardner send The Sunlight Diaries?

3. In Chapter 1, Gardner writes, "Though there are exceptions, as a rule the good novelist does not worry primarily about ____ brilliance."

4. What is the title of Chapter 3?

5. The study of what can give the young writer a clear sense of why our age is so troubled?

(see the answer key)

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