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

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

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

4. According to Anne, what is the way to "nail" a character?
(a) Set design.
(b) Hammers.
(c) Dialogue.
(d) Plot.

5. When Anne showed up at the Special Olympics to write an article, did she know what she was going to write?
(a) She had no idea of what the finished article would be.
(b) Yes, she was going to write a food review about the hot dogs there.
(c) No, she was not even very interested.
(d) Yes, about a girl on crutches.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is on Anne's desk that reminds her of short assignments?

2. How does a writer end up with a good second draft or a terrific third draft?

3. Where does Anne tell her students to start with their writing?

4. What is a recurring problem that Anne sees in her students?

5. What does Anne say you have to get over, or you will not go far in your writing?

(see the answer key)

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