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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. What is Ethan Canin's idea of the most valuable thing about writing?
(a) Using a sanserif font.
(b) Good dialog.
(c) A likeable narrator.
(d) A strong plot.

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

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

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

5. What kind of feedback do the two people that read Anne's drafts give her?
(a) How to make her story less tedious and in funnier dialect.
(b) How to make her story into a blockbuster movie.
(c) How to make her story funnier, stronger, more interesting, and less tedious.
(d) How to make her story more interesting and publication ready.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Anne suggest feedback from someone close to you yields?

2. What do we want out of important characters, such as a narrator?

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

4. What two qualities are needed to communicate effectively according to Anne?

5. When will you know your characters, according to Anne?

(see the answer key)

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