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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 that there is ecstasy in?
(a) Paying attention.
(b) Wine and chocolate.
(c) Compassionate detachment.
(d) Ripples in the water.

2. What does Anne's friend tell her that we and our characters have to work within?
(a) A one-inch picture frame.
(b) The stories of our life.
(c) A mason jar.
(d) An emotional acre.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Before she sends copies to her editor or agent, who reads Anne's drafts for her?

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

4. What does Anne say writers want to happen to a reader as they read about a character?

5. As a writer, what is very hard for Anne to take?

(see the answer key)

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