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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. How does plot fall together?
(a) As you listen to jazz music and drink wine.
(b) Piece by piece, like a puzzle.
(c) As you conform your characters to the plot in your outline.
(d) As you listen to your characters and watch them move.

2. What is Anne's comment on messes?
(a) Messes should be kept to a minimum.
(b) Messes do not say anything about who we are.
(c) Hire a housekeeper to clean up your messes.
(d) They are an artist's true friend.

3. How does Anne describe writing for herself and most other writers she knows?
(a) Elegant.
(b) Rapturous.
(c) Dewy and thrilled.
(d) Not rapturous.

4. How does Anne define clutter?
(a) Something to be swept under the rug.
(b) Makes her hold her breath.
(c) Easier to deal with if you put in specific piles.
(d) Wonderfully fertile ground.

5. What does Anne say good writing is about?
(a) Spelling everything correctly.
(b) Dialect.
(c) Outlines, plots, and themes.
(d) Telling the truth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does plot grow from?

2. What was Vonnegut's comment on writing?

3. How does Anne tell her students to train the unconscious to kick in?

4. What does Anne tell her students the reason to write is?

5. How does Anne define perfectionism?

(see the answer key)

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