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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Section 10, Set Design.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the way to hold a reader's attention?
(a) Drama.
(b) Good plots.
(c) Dialogue.
(d) Pictures.

2. How does Anne tell her students to train the unconscious to kick in?
(a) Drink wine and eat chocolate, then write.
(b) Sit down to write at approximately the same time every day.
(c) Phone an off-putting friend, that will get your creative juices going.
(d) Listen to classical music.

3. How does Anne describe the Polaroid?
(a) Quick and easy, just like writing.
(b) Anybody can take a Polariod picture, as long as there is film in the camera.
(c) You are not supposed to know what the picture looks like until it finishes developing.
(d) You point and shoot at what you think you want, but it does not always turn out as expected.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Anne's response when her students ask her for the best writing advice?

2. Who are the two authors that Anne says have written well about plot?

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

4. What does Anne say can reveal a character better than pages of description?

5. How did Anne feel after the basketball game?

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