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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Section 10, Set Design.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Aside from talking to people, what are other ways to gather ideas for set design?
(a) Take a nap and dream about it, or watch a movie.
(b) You need only to look to the plot for your set design.
(c) Going to visit and reading books about the set your are trying to design.
(d) Reading a book on the subject and then meditating.

3. 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.

4. What movie line does Anne suggest as a good one to tape to the wall of your office?
(a) "Climb every mountain."
(b) "Jeremiah was a bullfrog."
(c) "Hey - lighten up, Francis."
(d) "From sun up to sun down I am the best writer in town."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the basic formula for drama?

2. How does a writer end up with a good second draft or a terrific third draft?

3. From where did Anne's Special Olympics article start to emerge?

4. How does Anne define perfectionism?

5. The school lunches writing assignment combines which two pieces of writing advice from Anne?

(see the answer key)

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