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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 Anne suggest you should expect someone to review your work?
(a) In both a gentle and harsh way.
(b) With a big red crayon.
(c) In a harsh and savage way.
(d) In a gentle and encouraging way.

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

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. When will you know your characters, according to Anne?
(a) When you first sit down and start to write about them.
(b) After teatime.
(c) When your editor tells you who they are.
(d) Weeks or months after you started working with them.

5. What is Ethan Canin's idea of the most valuable thing about writing?
(a) A strong plot.
(b) A likeable narrator.
(c) Good dialog.
(d) Using a sanserif font.

Short Answer Questions

1. As a writer, what is very hard for Anne to take?

2. Paying attention is a powerful antidote for what?

3. What does Anne suggest feedback from someone close to you yields?

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

5. What does Anne say writers want to happen to a reader as they read about a character?

(see the answer key)

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