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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 Anne suggest you should expect someone to review your work?
(a) In both a gentle and harsh way.
(b) With a big red crayon.
(c) In a gentle and encouraging way.
(d) In a harsh and savage way.

2. As a writer, what is very hard for Anne to take?
(a) Criticism.
(b) Aspirin.
(c) Dialog in dialect.
(d) Suggestions on new characters.

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

4. What does Anne say writers want to happen to a reader as they read about a character?
(a) Recognize how descriptive the character is.
(b) For the reader to be able to see what a wonderful writer has done with the character's dialect.
(c) Recognition of self within the character.
(d) For the reader to have compassion for the character.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Anne say can reveal a character better than pages of description?

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

(see the answer key)

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