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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. Gardner writes in Chapter 2 that in the workshop he is teaching he encountered a story which he hopes to publish titled what?
(a) "Tomorrow."
(b) "Exit."
(c) "Jason."
(d) "Thoughts."

2. What is the name of the man who moves next door to his teenage daughter in Gardner's hypothetical story in Chapter 1?
(a) Bob.
(b) Bill.
(c) Frank.
(d) James.

3. What literary magazine does Gardner publish?
(a) MRR.
(b) Writer's Weekly.
(c) Reader's Digest.
(d) MSS.

4. Which author went to Paris and studied with one of the shrewdest writers, Gertrude Stein?
(a) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(b) Ernest Hemingway.
(c) Stephen Crane.
(d) Henry James.

5. What does Gardner cite as one of the most respected publishers of novels?
(a) Harper and Row.
(b) Penguin.
(c) Alfred A. Knopf.
(d) Simon and Schuster.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Gardner suggest writing to for information on reliable agents?

2. What is, according to Gardner, the one quality in fiction that cannot be faked?

3. In Chapter 2, Gardner notes that "The wide range of opinion in a class affords increases the writer's chance of getting a _____."

4. What does Gardner state in Chapter 1 that we call a writer who cares more for language than the other elements of fiction?

5. Of what author does Gardner say his heroes are clown-heroes knocked around by the universe?

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