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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. How does knowledge of your characters emerge, according to Anne?
(a) Quickly and easily.
(b) Characters come after you finish a good outline.
(c) Like a sunrise, full of beauty and splendor.
(d) Like a Polaroid, it takes time to know them.

2. What two qualities are needed to communicate effectively according to Anne?
(a) Respect and compassion.
(b) Respect and agressiveness.
(c) Compassion and high morals.
(d) Good penmanship and excellent dialect.

3. How does Anne suggest finding a partner to read your work?
(a) Put an ad in the paper or on the bulletin board.
(b) Ask someone who is a best seller if they would like to work with you.
(c) Ask someone whose work you admire if they would like to work with you.
(d) Ask someone who rarely reads if they would read your work.

4. What does Anne suggest feedback from someone close to you yields?
(a) Confidence and time to improve the work.
(b) A headache and ulcer.
(c) Mindless suggestions and a loss of friends.
(d) Better plots and newer characters.

5. Before she sends copies to her editor or agent, who reads Anne's drafts for her?
(a) Her two best friends.
(b) Her son and the guy at the copy shop.
(c) Her best friend and a librarian.
(d) A student and a librarian.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What kind of feedback do the two people that read Anne's drafts give her?

4. In the beginning of Part 2, what does Anne say writing is about?

5. What does Anne say that there is ecstasy in?

(see the answer key)

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