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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Section 5, Letters.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Secretly, why do some people attend Anne's writing class?
(a) To learn how to write better.
(b) To socialize.
(c) In hopes she will love their writing and send it to her agent.
(d) To become her friend.

2. How does Anne describe writing for herself and most other writers she knows?
(a) Dewy and thrilled.
(b) Not rapturous.
(c) Elegant.
(d) Rapturous.

3. How does Anne describe the Polaroid?
(a) Quick and easy, just like writing.
(b) Anybody can take a Polariod picture, as long as there is film in the camera.
(c) You point and shoot at what you think you want, but it does not always turn out as expected.
(d) You are not supposed to know what the picture looks like until it finishes developing.

4. What does Anne state is the most degrading occupational hazard of being a writer?
(a) Paranoia.
(b) Jealousy.
(c) Unruly characters.
(d) KFKD.

5. What does Anne suggest feedback from someone close to you yields?
(a) Confidence and time to improve the work.
(b) Mindless suggestions and a loss of friends.
(c) Better plots and newer characters.
(d) A headache and ulcer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do we want out of important characters, such as a narrator?

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

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

4. What is the way to hold a reader's attention?

5. What do most of Anne's students assume about why well-respected writers's books turn out beautifully?

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