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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Section 4, Someone to Read Your Drafts.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Anne say must first happen before we can recognize others for who they are?
(a) Watch them for a year.
(b) Ask them who they think they really are, it is so telling.
(c) Visit with them for a few hours.
(d) Compassionately knowing who you are.

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

4. In the beginning of Part 2, what does Anne say writing is about?
(a) "...learning to pay attention and communicate what is going on."
(b) Getting published!
(c) A good plot treatment.
(d) Making up stories about fairies.

5. How does Anne suggest finding a partner to read your work?
(a) Ask someone who is a best seller if they would like to work with you.
(b) Ask someone whose work you admire if they would like to work with you.
(c) Put an ad in the paper or on the bulletin board.
(d) Ask someone who rarely reads if they would read your work.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Anne suggest you should expect someone to review your work?

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

3. What is Ethan Canin's idea of the most valuable thing about writing?

4. Before she sends copies to her editor or agent, who reads Anne's drafts for her?

5. What does Anne say can reveal a character better than pages of description?

(see the answer key)

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