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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. What is the best thing to do when you have a decision to make and do not know what to do?
(a) Something, anything; making a mistake is better than doing nothing.
(b) Call your mother for advice.
(c) Sit in a corner with your arms around your knees, and just start rocking back and forth.
(d) Flip a coin.

2. What does Anne say can reveal a character better than pages of description?
(a) The antagonist.
(b) Really off the wall dialect.
(c) One line of dialog that rings true.
(d) Pages of dialog with descriptive wording.

3. From what assignment did Anne end up writing a letter to her son?
(a) Essay about San Francisco.
(b) Essay about baseball.
(c) Essay about being a life-long Giants fan.
(d) There was no assignment, she just wanted to write a letter to her son.

4. When writing her letter to Sam, who did Anne picture peering over her shoulder?
(a) Her editor.
(b) Dr. Suess.
(c) Pammy.
(d) Sam.

5. What is the best way to quiet KFKD?
(a) Earplugs.
(b) Realize it is on, have a writing ritual, and breathe.
(c) Call a friend.
(d) Blast heavy-metal music.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is Henry James' classic line about a writer looking for his glasses which were atop his head?

4. What can yield strange characters lurking in the shadows, according to Anne?

5. What are two good reasons cited by Anne for calling around?

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