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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Section 12, Plot Treatment.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Anne's third suggestion about putting together good dialogue?
(a) Put two people, who would never want to be together, in a close situation. They will have lots to say.
(b) Put two people who have lots in common together for teatime.
(c) Insert clever dialogue whenever possible.
(d) Dialogue emerges entirely from the plot. Listen to the plot.

2. What do we want out of important characters, such as a narrator?
(a) A good plot line.
(b) For them to be reliable.
(c) For them to entertain us every step of the way.
(d) For them to manipulate us.

3. Who are the two authors that Anne says have written well about plot?
(a) E. M. Forester and John Gardner.
(b) Flannery O'Conner and Faulkner.
(c) John Gardner and Faulkner.
(d) Rosemary Wells and Doreen Cornin.

4. In Anne's experience, and the experience of other writer's she knows, how easily does plot structure come?
(a) Not easily at all.
(b) It tends to come like the development of a Polaroid.
(c) It is like a Gulf stream going through a straw.
(d) Easy as pie.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Anne's friend tell her that we and our characters have to work within?

2. Aside from talking to people, what are other ways to gather ideas for set design?

3. The school lunches writing assignment combines which two pieces of writing advice from Anne?

4. Why does Anne write?

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

(see the answer key)

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