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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. Where does plot grow from?
(a) A good outline.
(b) A good topsoil.
(c) A one-inch picture frame.
(d) Characters.
2. Where does Anne tell her students to start with their writing?
(a) A near-death experience.
(b) Third grade.
(c) Poems.
(d) Childhood.
3. At what age did Anne start writing?
(a) Eight.
(b) Eleven.
(c) Five.
(d) Thirty.
4. What does the title, False Starts, mean?
(a) Set design never turns out like you think it will.
(b) When you have to scrap your bad first draft.
(c) You think you know about the character, but as you start writing, you can find out you were wrong.
(d) When you start writing too soon, without doing your research.
5. What can yield strange characters lurking in the shadows, according to Anne?
(a) Working on a good plot line.
(b) Eating school lunches.
(c) Taking a short assignment and writing a bad first draft.
(d) Meditating.
Short Answer Questions
1. In Part 1, Section 6, Polaroids, what was Anne's finished article about?
2. Aside from talking to people, what are other ways to gather ideas for set design?
3. Ten days before Pammy died, she went shopping with Anne. On this excursion Anne figured out what Pammy's essence was. What was it?
4. The school lunches writing assignment combines which two pieces of writing advice from Anne?
5. When will you know your characters, according to Anne?
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