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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 does Anne say can reveal a character better than pages of description?
(a) Really off the wall dialect.
(b) Pages of dialog with descriptive wording.
(c) The antagonist.
(d) One line of dialog that rings true.

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

3. What is Anne's first useful concept about?
(a) Sharp pencils.
(b) Having lots of wine and chocolate around.
(c) Short assignments.
(d) Ergonomic keyboards.

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

5. What is Anne's father's occupation?
(a) Librarian.
(b) Writer.
(c) Real Estate Agent.
(d) Hippie.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alice Adams' ABDCE formula stand for, in writing a short story?

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

3. What do we want out of important characters, such as a narrator?

4. When talking with a subject expert about kitchens, what are good questions to ask about the kitchen?

5. In Anne's opinion, who writes bad first drafts?

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