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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 do most of Anne's students assume about why well-respected writers's books turn out beautifully?
(a) They drink wine.
(b) They analyze each character.
(c) They are subject matter experts.
(d) They have outlined the plot.

2. 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.

3. What are great language tools that explain the unknown in terms of the known to the reader?
(a) Metaphors.
(b) Similes.
(c) A garden and river.
(d) Plots.

4. What can yield strange characters lurking in the shadows, according to Anne?
(a) Working on a good plot line.
(b) Eating school lunches.
(c) Meditating.
(d) Taking a short assignment and writing a bad first draft.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Anne's response when her students ask her for the best writing advice?

2. When will you know your characters, according to Anne?

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

4. How did Anne feel after the basketball game?

5. When writing towards a scene, why may you find it is all wrong when you finish it?

(see the answer key)

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