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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's friend tell her that we and our characters have to work within?
(a) A one-inch picture frame.
(b) An emotional acre.
(c) A mason jar.
(d) The stories of our life.

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

3. When a student is having difficulty writing, what does Anne ask them about?
(a) About the wire thingy on champagne bottles.
(b) Their school lunches.
(c) The current time and temperature.
(d) How messy they were as a child.

4. How does knowledge of your characters emerge, according to Anne?
(a) Quickly and easily.
(b) Characters come after you finish a good outline.
(c) Like a Polaroid, it takes time to know them.
(d) Like a sunrise, full of beauty and splendor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Anne tell her students to train the unconscious to kick in?

2. What is a plot treatment?

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

4. A moral position is not a message, but what is it according to Anne?

5. KFKD plays in stereo. What does Anne say plays out of the left and right speakers?

(see the answer key)

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