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

2. What can yield strange characters lurking in the shadows, according to Anne?
(a) Taking a short assignment and writing a bad first draft.
(b) Meditating.
(c) Eating school lunches.
(d) Working on a good plot line.

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

4. What advice did E. L. Doctorow have about writing?
(a) "Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."
(b) "Writing makes me paranoid. I don't recommend it."
(c) "Writing a novel is like taking a horse to water, but then he does not drink."
(d) "Writing a novel is like making dinner. If you do prep work, the cooking comes easy."

5. According to Anne, what is one thing that can make a book very tiring to read?
(a) Dialogue written without any dialect.
(b) Dialogue written in dialect.
(c) Serif font.
(d) Dr. Suess.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Anne say perfectionism will block?

4. How does Anne define clutter?

5. From where did Anne's Special Olympics article start to emerge?

(see the answer key)

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