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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Section 8, Plot.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Alice Adams' ABDCE formula stand for, in writing a short story?
(a) Alice's Books Do Create Excitement.
(b) Action, Background, Development, Climax, and Ending.
(c) Action, Background, Characters, Drama, and Ending.
(d) Asides, Background, Drama, Characters, and Encoding.

2. Who are the two authors that Anne says have written well about plot?
(a) Flannery O'Conner and Faulkner.
(b) Rosemary Wells and Doreen Cornin.
(c) E. M. Forester and John Gardner.
(d) John Gardner and Faulkner.

3. What magazine did Anne write food reviews for, before it folded?
(a) California.
(b) Food News Review.
(c) Pots and Pans.
(d) Sacramento.

4. What advice does Anne's hypnotist give her about the negative voices?
(a) Listen to the voices and do exactly what each one says.
(b) Imagine they are mice, pick them up, and drop them in a mason jar with a lid.
(c) Imagine they are dogs snarling at you and yell at them.
(d) Pretend you are on a TV talkshow.

5. Where does Anne tell her students to start with their writing?
(a) Childhood.
(b) Poems.
(c) A near-death experience.
(d) Third grade.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Anne's opinion, who writes bad first drafts?

2. When Anne showed up at the Special Olympics to write an article, did she know what she was going to write?

3. In Part 1, Section 6, Polaroids, who was the self-proclaimed "cool man?"

4. In Part 1, Section 6, Polaroids, what was Anne's finished article about?

5. What does Anne say you have to get over, or you will not go far in your writing?

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