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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 did Anne feel after the basketball game?
(a) Joyful.
(b) Thankful for what she and her son had.
(c) Depressed and hungry.
(d) Like she could write all day.

2. Where did Anne's father teach his class?
(a) San Quentin to the prisoners.
(b) On the street to hippies.
(c) The local community college to kids.
(d) Elementary school to children.

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

4. How does Anne tell her students to train the unconscious to kick in?
(a) Phone an off-putting friend, that will get your creative juices going.
(b) Sit down to write at approximately the same time every day.
(c) Drink wine and eat chocolate, then write.
(d) Listen to classical music.

5. How does Anne define perfectionism?
(a) Chewing gum will relieve it.
(b) An abundantly jealous form of writing.
(c) The only way to write.
(d) A mean, frozen form of idealism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a recurring problem that Anne sees in her students?

2. What do readers want to know about characters besides their superficial values?

3. What was Anne's first poem about that got any attention?

4. What was Vonnegut's comment on writing?

5. What is Anne's first useful concept about?

(see the answer key)

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