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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Faith.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What author does Gardner say was known to arrive at a party and sit for ten minutes or more staring at guests and not answering when people addressed him in Chapter1?
(a) James Joyce.
(b) Moliere.
(c) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(d) Anthony Trollope.

3. When is it incredibly expensive to go back and make revisions?
(a) After going on the shelves.
(b) After going to the editors.
(c) After going to print.
(d) When characters are established.

4. What class, at least in America, does Gardner say most writers come from?
(a) Lower or middle.
(b) Middle or upper.
(c) Lowest.
(d) Upper.

5. What publishing house did Gardner send Grendel to first?
(a) Simon and Schulster.
(b) Hannigan and Hannigan.
(c) Alfred A. Knopf.
(d) Penguin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Publishing houses tend to have what, according to Gardner in Chapter 3?

2. Gardner writes that authors are almost never satisfied with the ____ job their publishers do.

3. What is the honest answer to the question most young writer's ask of "Do I have what it takes to be a writer?" according to Gardner?

4. In Chapter 2, Gardner writes that writing, "like the study of classical piano, is not practical but _____."

5. In Chapter 1, Gardner states that "In a literary culture where the very notion of a 'masterpiece' is commonly thought" what?

(see the answer key)

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