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

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

3. What is Anne's response when her students ask her for the best writing advice?
(a) She picks up a piece of paper and pantomimes writing on it.
(b) She tells them to meditate.
(c) She quotes a Buddhist disciple.
(d) She twirls a flower in the air.

4. Anne tells her students they can use paranoia as wonderful material, and then recites a poem. Who is the author of the poem?
(a) Buster Brown.
(b) Phillip Lopate.
(c) She is.
(d) C. S. Lewis.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Anne say good writing is about?

2. After a half hour of writing, how much material was generated from the school lunch assignment?

3. What image does Anne use to help her gather dialog for characters?

4. When a student is having difficulty writing, what does Anne ask them about?

5. What is Anne's second suggestion about writing dialogue?

(see the answer key)

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