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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Section 8, Plot.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Anne describe the Polaroid?
(a) You point and shoot at what you think you want, but it does not always turn out as expected.
(b) Anybody can take a Polariod picture, as long as there is film in the camera.
(c) Quick and easy, just like writing.
(d) You are not supposed to know what the picture looks like until it finishes developing.

3. How does Anne define perfectionism?
(a) An abundantly jealous form of writing.
(b) The only way to write.
(c) Chewing gum will relieve it.
(d) A mean, frozen form of idealism.

4. From where did Anne's Special Olympics article start to emerge?
(a) The cool man.
(b) A Polaroid of three of the athletes.
(c) Her lunch.
(d) The girl on crutches.

5. What advice does Anne's hypnotist give her about the negative voices?
(a) Imagine they are mice, pick them up, and drop them in a mason jar with a lid.
(b) Imagine they are dogs snarling at you and yell at them.
(c) Pretend you are on a TV talkshow.
(d) Listen to the voices and do exactly what each one says.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the basic formula for drama?

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

3. What is at least half the battle Anne faces in her daily writing?

4. In Part 1, Section 6, Polaroids, what was Anne's finished article about?

5. Who are the two authors that Anne says have written well about plot?

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