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

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

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

4. In the beginning of Part 2, what does Anne say writing is about?
(a) Getting published!
(b) Making up stories about fairies.
(c) A good plot treatment.
(d) "...learning to pay attention and communicate what is going on."

5. What do we want out of important characters, such as a narrator?
(a) A good plot line.
(b) For them to manipulate us.
(c) For them to entertain us every step of the way.
(d) For them to be reliable.

Short Answer Questions

1. Paying attention is a powerful antidote for what?

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

3. How does Anne suggest you should expect someone to review your work?

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

5. How does knowledge of your characters emerge, according to Anne?

(see the answer key)

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