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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Help Along the Way, Section 1, Index Cards.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When will you know your characters, according to Anne?
(a) Weeks or months after you started working with them.
(b) When your editor tells you who they are.
(c) After teatime.
(d) When you first sit down and start to write about them.

2. According to Anne, what is one thing that can make a book very tiring to read?
(a) Dr. Suess.
(b) Dialogue written in dialect.
(c) Serif font.
(d) Dialogue written without any dialect.

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

4. What is at least half the battle Anne faces in her daily writing?
(a) Having enough paper in the printer.
(b) Writing a bad first draft.
(c) All the characters talking at one time.
(d) Quieting the critical voices.

5. At what age did Anne start writing?
(a) Thirty.
(b) Eleven.
(c) Eight.
(d) Five.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the question Anne's students always ask?

2. What is Anne's first suggestion about writing dialogue?

3. What are great language tools that explain the unknown in terms of the known to the reader?

4. What does the fourteenth Dalai Lama claim to be his religion?

5. What is the best way to quiet KFKD?

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