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

2. What movie line does Anne suggest as a good one to tape to the wall of your office?
(a) "Hey - lighten up, Francis."
(b) "From sun up to sun down I am the best writer in town."
(c) "Jeremiah was a bullfrog."
(d) "Climb every mountain."

3. 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) Phillip Lopate.
(c) She is.
(d) Buster Brown.

4. What does Anne warn about doing with your characters?
(a) Getting them to do something because it is convenient to the plot.
(b) Giving them only one page of description.
(c) Letting them speak in dialect.
(d) Placing them in an improper set.

5. From where did Anne's Special Olympics article start to emerge?
(a) A Polaroid of three of the athletes.
(b) Her lunch.
(c) The cool man.
(d) The girl on crutches.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Anne feel after the basketball game?

2. What was Vonnegut's comment on writing?

3. Anne's editor loved the characters in her book, but what was the problem with the book?

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

5. When Anne showed up at the Special Olympics to write an article, did she know what she was going to write?

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