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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Section 4, Someone to Read Your Drafts.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Paying attention is a powerful antidote for what?
(a) The rational mind.
(b) Paranoia.
(c) Sleepless nights.
(d) A hangover.

2. When will you know your characters, according to Anne?
(a) After teatime.
(b) When your editor tells you who they are.
(c) When you first sit down and start to write about them.
(d) Weeks or months after you started working with them.

3. What does Anne say can reveal a character better than pages of description?
(a) One line of dialog that rings true.
(b) The antagonist.
(c) Pages of dialog with descriptive wording.
(d) Really off the wall dialect.

4. In the beginning of Part 2, what does Anne say writing is about?
(a) A good plot treatment.
(b) Making up stories about fairies.
(c) "...learning to pay attention and communicate what is going on."
(d) Getting published!

5. What does Anne say that there is ecstasy in?
(a) Ripples in the water.
(b) Wine and chocolate.
(c) Paying attention.
(d) Compassionate detachment.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Anne suggest finding a partner to read your work?

2. What does Anne's friend tell her that we and our characters have to work within?

3. What is Ethan Canin's idea of the most valuable thing about writing?

4. What does Anne say must first happen before we can recognize others for who they are?

5. How does knowledge of your characters emerge, according to Anne?

(see the answer key)

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