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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 that authors are almost never satisfied with the ____ job their publishers do.
(a) Promotion.
(b) Preselling.
(c) Editing.
(d) Reworking.

2. What word does Gardner use to describe that teaching which tends to emphasize theme and design over feeling and authentic narrative?
(a) Developmental.
(b) Workshoppy.
(c) Inverted.
(d) Amateur.

3. Of which writer does Gardner say, "the brilliant language with which he describes a minor character cannot help but suggest that the words he chooses are more important to him than the token secretary behind the desk"?
(a) John Updike.
(b) William Faulkner.
(c) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(d) Dylan Thomas.

4. Who is the author of Crime and Punishment?
(a) Joyce.
(b) Dostoevsky.
(c) Nabokov.
(d) Flannagan.

5. Gardner writes in Chapter 1 that when the central character is a victim there is no what?
(a) Terror.
(b) Suspense.
(c) Action.
(d) Empathy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Gardner teach workshops, as he claims it has a good program for fiction?

2. Gardner states in Chapter 2 that the first value of a writer's workshop is that it makes the young writer feel not abnormal but what?

3. What magazine does Gardner suggest for good literary work in Chapter 1?

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

5. What is the name of the writer's conference where Gardner has frequently worked with writing assistants?

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