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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. In Chapter 1, Gardner writes, "Though there are exceptions, as a rule the good novelist does not worry primarily about ____ brilliance."
(a) Linguistic.
(b) Creative.
(c) Auditory.
(d) Artistic.

2. Who was the first editor to take interest in Gardner's work?
(a) James Growder.
(b) Bob Gottlieb.
(c) Gerald Kimble.
(d) Jack Smith.

3. Gardner compares Melville's Moby Dick with what in Chapter 1?
(a) Omoo.
(b) Anna Karanina.
(c) To Have and Have Not.
(d) Emma.

4. Of whose writing does Gardner say that no reader can doubt the impulse to capture real life, "the special quality of country-Welsh craziness"?
(a) Samuel Beckett.
(b) John Updike.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Dylan Thomas.

5. Who is the author of Piers Plowman?
(a) Langland.
(b) Joyce.
(c) Miller.
(d) Salinger.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the manuscript go after the literary editor is finished with it?

2. What author once remarked "the best way to become a writer is to go off and write"?

3. What story of Robert Penn Warren's did Raymond Carver read in Gardner's class at Chico State College?

4. Who developed the style of the "epiphany story" in The Dubliners?

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

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