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On Becoming a Novelist Quiz

John Gardner
This Study Guide consists of approximately 29 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of On Becoming a Novelist.

On Becoming a Novelist Quiz

John Gardner
This Study Guide consists of approximately 29 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of On Becoming a Novelist.

Take our free On Becoming a Novelist quiz below, with 25 multiple choice questions that help you test your knowledge. Determine which chapters, themes and styles you already know and what you need to study for your upcoming essay, midterm, or final exam. Take the free quiz now!

Directions: Click on the correct answer.

Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

What word does Gardner use to describe that teaching which tends to emphasize theme and design over feeling and authentic narrative? (from Chapter 2, The Writer's Training and Education)

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? (from Chapter 2, The Writer's Training and Education)

3.

Gardner writes that one editor insisted on changing his punctuation based on some rule he learned where? (from Chapter 3, Publication and Survival)

4.

Gardner compares Melville's Moby Dick with what in Chapter 1? (from Chapter 1, The Writer's Nature, Pages 34-72)

5.

Where does the manuscript go after the literary editor is finished with it? (from Chapter 3, Publication and Survival)

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