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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Anne writing about when she contacted an expert to help her with the set design?
(a) A vegetable medley.
(b) A kitchen.
(c) A Special Olympics race.
(d) A garden.

2. How does plot fall together?
(a) Piece by piece, like a puzzle.
(b) As you listen to jazz music and drink wine.
(c) As you listen to your characters and watch them move.
(d) As you conform your characters to the plot in your outline.

3. What can yield strange characters lurking in the shadows, according to Anne?
(a) Working on a good plot line.
(b) Eating school lunches.
(c) Taking a short assignment and writing a bad first draft.
(d) Meditating.

4. Where does the image of putting an octopus to bed come from?
(a) The octopus' mother.
(b) Pammy's memorial garden.
(c) The nursing home.
(d) Recovery.

5. In working on set design for your book, what does Anne suggest you imagine yourself as?
(a) An operating room nurse, getting utensils ready.
(b) An architect for a building.
(c) Set designer for a play or movie.
(d) A butterfly flitting around a room.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Anne's response to her students question about knowing when they are done?

2. What does Anne say that there is ecstasy in?

3. What is a plot treatment?

4. How does Anne define perfectionism?

5. When talking with a subject expert about kitchens, what are good questions to ask about the kitchen?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Anne suggest can help when you sit down to write dialogue?

2. Alice Adams suggests the ABDCE formula for writing a short story. How can formulas be a great way to get us started?

3. How does Anne warn against writing towards a climax or destination?

4. How does Anne state dialogue affects a reader?

5. In college, Anne found a community in which she might fit in. Why did she felt a sense of community in college?

6. When Anne's students tell her they do not know where to start, she tells them to start with their childhood. How is this helpful?

7. How did Anne's article on the Special Olympics start off? How did it turn out?

8. How do you know when you are done, according to Anne?

9. At some point you may need to design a set for your characters that you know nothing about. What avenues does Anne suggest taking to gain the knowledge you need?

10. What does Anne suggest doing with the feeling of paranoia?

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