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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. When Anne is participating in the school lunch writing assignment, what does she say about hers?
(a) Her father always made the perfect sandwiches.
(b) Homemade bread was something to be proud of.
(c) It was really about opening our insides in front of everyone. Just like writing.
(d) All the kids wanted to trade for her tuna salad.

2. What are great language tools that explain the unknown in terms of the known to the reader?
(a) Plots.
(b) Metaphors.
(c) A garden and river.
(d) Similes.

3. Where does Anne tell her students to start with their writing?
(a) Third grade.
(b) A near-death experience.
(c) Childhood.
(d) Poems.

4. What is Anne's third suggestion about putting together good dialogue?
(a) Insert clever dialogue whenever possible.
(b) Dialogue emerges entirely from the plot. Listen to the plot.
(c) Put two people who have lots in common together for teatime.
(d) Put two people, who would never want to be together, in a close situation. They will have lots to say.

5. What two qualities are needed to communicate effectively according to Anne?
(a) Respect and agressiveness.
(b) Good penmanship and excellent dialect.
(c) Respect and compassion.
(d) Compassion and high morals.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When a character takes on a characteristic that you have no good experience in, what should you do?

4. What does Anne say perfectionism will block?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does a bad first draft provide a writer, according to Anne?

3. How does the one-inch picture frame on Anne's desk put her in the mind to write a short assignment?

4. According to Anne, how does knowledge of a character develop?

5. Where does Anne find out something about false starts?

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

7. How does Anne suggest writers offer hope to readers?

8. How does Anne state dialogue affects a reader?

9. According to Anne, how are we able to see the underlying essence of a person?

10. With every work there will always be more that you could have done. What does Anne warn us against with this thought?

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