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

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

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

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Paying attention is a powerful antidote for what?

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

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

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

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

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