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

2. Why does Anne write?
(a) Her father was a writer.
(b) She wants to and she is good at it.
(c) She has read C. S. Lewis.
(d) She is a good typist.

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

4. In Anne's opinion, who writes bad first drafts?
(a) Reporters.
(b) All good writers.
(c) The birds.
(d) She does.

5. What is Ethan Canin's idea of the most valuable thing about writing?
(a) Good dialog.
(b) Using a sanserif font.
(c) A strong plot.
(d) A likeable narrator.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does plot grow from?

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

3. In Anne's experience, and the experience of other writer's she knows, how easily does plot structure come?

4. What does Anne tell her students the reason to write is?

5. What is the way to hold a reader's attention?

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