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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 states in Chapter 2 that an individual style is developed as much by resistance as by what?
(a) Contortion.
(b) Malleability.
(c) Emulation.
(d) Adjustment.

2. Gardner suggests that the dazzling poetry of Mercutio's Queen Mab speech is not the same poetry that who speaks?
(a) Macbeth.
(b) Petrucio.
(c) Juliet.
(d) Hamlet.

3. In Chapter 1, Gardner writes that one is unable to write for everyone, "try to win the audience both of Saul Bellow and" whom?
(a) Anton Chekhov.
(b) Stephen King.
(c) Charles Dickens.
(d) James Joyce.

4. Whose disguise in Jane Eyre does Gardner comment on as surprising in Chapter 1?
(a) Mr. Darby.
(b) Mr. Bryg.
(c) Mr. Rochester.
(d) Mr. Wolverton.

5. Gardner writes in Chapter 3, "Young writers want to ____ because they're unsure of themselves."
(a) Publish.
(b) Read.
(c) Go to school.
(d) Study.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gardner compares Melville's Moby Dick with what in Chapter 1?

2. Who wrote Bartelby the Scrivener?

3. Who is cited as the head of the writing program at Johns Hopkins and favors new and strange styles?

4. What is the title of Chapter 3?

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

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