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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 does Anne say you have to get over, or you will not go far in your writing?
(a) Hypochondria.
(b) Paranoia.
(c) Jealousy.
(d) Perfectionism.

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

3. What does the one-inch picture frame remind her of?
(a) How she is too old for orthodontia.
(b) How big her mole is getting.
(c) That she only has to write one inch of words that day.
(d) All she has to do is write as much as she can see through the one-inch picture frame.

4. After a half hour of writing, how much material was generated from the school lunch assignment?
(a) The perfect amount for a short story.
(b) Too much for Anne and some of the people in class, it threatened to immoblize them.
(c) Enough to write two or three books.
(d) None, her students did not eat lunch.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What movie line does Anne suggest as a good one to tape to the wall of your office?

2. What do we want out of important characters, such as a narrator?

3. What are great language tools that explain the unknown in terms of the known to the reader?

4. What is Ethan Canin's idea of the most valuable thing about writing?

5. In working on set design for your book, what does Anne suggest you imagine yourself as?

(see the answer key)

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