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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter 3 states that getting any letter at all from an editor is a mark of what?
(a) Quality.
(b) Ability.
(c) Luck.
(d) Interest.

2. Where does Gardner teach workshops, as he claims it has a good program for fiction?
(a) NYU.
(b) Binghamton.
(c) Emery.
(d) Oxford.

3. Letters to publishing houses should ideally be addressed to whom?
(a) Any editor.
(b) The head editor.
(c) The assistant editor.
(d) A particular editor.

4. Who does Gardner suggest writing to for information on reliable agents?
(a) DRAA.
(b) ILAA.
(c) AFJI.
(d) NROP.

5. Which writing teacher and author is famous for the energy and relative success with which he pushes his students' work at appropriate editors?
(a) Robert Coover.
(b) Raymond Carver.
(c) James Dickinson.
(d) Sean Howard.

6. The study of what can give the young writer a clear sense of why our age is so troubled?
(a) Philology.
(b) English.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Drama.

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

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

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

10. Who wrote the book 1984?
(a) J. D. Salinger.
(b) Thomas Pynchon.
(c) Ray Bradbury.
(d) George Orwell.

11. Gardner writes in Chapter 2 that in a bad workshop, the teacher allows or even encourages what?
(a) Support.
(b) Bad spelling.
(c) Bad grammar.
(d) Attack.

12. Gardner compares the first thrill of achievement of the writer to that of an oboist or what?
(a) Painter.
(b) Actor.
(c) Gambler.
(d) Pianist.

13. Gardner writes that one editor insisted on changing his punctuation based on some rule he learned where?
(a) Columbia.
(b) NYU.
(c) Yale.
(d) Rutgers.

14. What does Gardner say brings together groups of young writers who, even in the absence of superb teachers, can be of help to one another?
(a) Graduate programs.
(b) Colleges.
(c) Seminars.
(d) Writers' workshops.

15. 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) "Thoughts."
(c) "Jason."
(d) "Exit."

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the more reputedly good magazines that Gardner suggests publication in?

2. Which is one of the great graduate programs for writers that Gardner refers to in Chapter 2?

3. What is the title of Chapter 3?

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

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

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