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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. What does Anne believe allows us to see the individual person?
(a) Getting rid of the busyness.
(b) Having a list of questions to ask them.
(c) Spending time with them.
(d) You can do this in about an hour, if you are really good at reading people.

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

3. Anne's editor loved the characters in her book, but what was the problem with the book?
(a) The dialect was all wrong.
(b) She had false starts all over the place.
(c) She had not brought them all together.
(d) The garden was not believable.

4. What is Anne's response when her students ask her for the best writing advice?
(a) She quotes a Buddhist disciple.
(b) She tells them to meditate.
(c) She picks up a piece of paper and pantomimes writing on it.
(d) She twirls a flower in the air.

5. Where does Anne say a moral position begins?
(a) In a proper set design.
(b) In a bad first draft.
(c) In the plot treatment.
(d) In the heart of a character.

Short Answer Questions

1. Instead of writing towards a plot, what does Anne suggest?

2. From where did Anne's Special Olympics article start to emerge?

3. What is Ethan Canin's idea of the most valuable thing about writing?

4. When you are still, and breathing calmly, what can happen, according to Anne?

5. When writing towards a scene, why may you find it is all wrong when you finish it?

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