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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Section 8, Plot.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part 1, Section 6, Polaroids, who was the self-proclaimed "cool man?"
(a) Sam.
(b) A boy against a fence.
(c) The referee of the basketball game.
(d) A tall African American man.

2. What does Alice Adams' ABDCE formula stand for, in writing a short story?
(a) Asides, Background, Drama, Characters, and Encoding.
(b) Action, Background, Development, Climax, and Ending.
(c) Action, Background, Characters, Drama, and Ending.
(d) Alice's Books Do Create Excitement.

3. What was Vonnegut's comment on writing?
(a) I write with crayons, it is prettier.
(b) When I write, I feel like an armless legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
(c) When I write, I shoot for the stars and end up somewhere on the moon.
(d) Writing is an extension of the soul onto a blank canvas in sheer poetic movements.

4. Who are the two authors that Anne says have written well about plot?
(a) John Gardner and Faulkner.
(b) Rosemary Wells and Doreen Cornin.
(c) Flannery O'Conner and Faulkner.
(d) E. M. Forester and John Gardner.

5. Anne tells her students they can use paranoia as wonderful material, and then recites a poem. Who is the author of the poem?
(a) She is.
(b) Buster Brown.
(c) C. S. Lewis.
(d) Phillip Lopate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the way to hold a reader's attention?

2. In Anne's opinion, who writes bad first drafts?

3. How does Anne describe the Polaroid?

4. How does Anne describe writing for herself and most other writers she knows?

5. Where does Anne tell her students to start with their writing?

(see the answer key)

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