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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 is the way to hold a reader's attention?
(a) Good plots.
(b) Dialogue.
(c) Pictures.
(d) Drama.

2. What is Ethan Canin's idea of the most valuable thing about writing?
(a) A likeable narrator.
(b) A strong plot.
(c) Using a sanserif font.
(d) Good dialog.

3. Who are the two authors that Anne says have written well about plot?
(a) Rosemary Wells and Doreen Cornin.
(b) John Gardner and Faulkner.
(c) Flannery O'Conner and Faulkner.
(d) E. M. Forester and John Gardner.

4. What does the fourteenth Dalai Lama claim to be his religion?
(a) Kindness.
(b) Buddhism.
(c) Moral position.
(d) Good ethics.

5. What was the image from a medieval monk, Brother Lawerence, that helped Anne come to terms with the residents in the nursing home?
(a) Treat others as you would want to be treated.
(b) That we, like trees in the winter, have nothing to give, but are there to be loved unconditionally.
(c) Do not worry about tomorrow, today has enough worry for all.
(d) We are all dust in the wind.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Anne tell her students the reason to write is?

2. What is at least half the battle Anne faces in her daily writing?

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

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

5. If we do not have our broccoli to help us write, what guides us?

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