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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. In working on set design for your book, what does Anne suggest you imagine yourself as?
(a) An architect for a building.
(b) Set designer for a play or movie.
(c) A butterfly flitting around a room.
(d) An operating room nurse, getting utensils ready.

2. What is Anne's response when her students ask her for the best writing advice?
(a) She picks up a piece of paper and pantomimes writing on it.
(b) She twirls a flower in the air.
(c) She quotes a Buddhist disciple.
(d) She tells them to meditate.

3. What is Anne's second suggestion about writing dialogue?
(a) Your characters should be identifiable by what they say.
(b) Your characters should always speak in dialect.
(c) Dialogue is not a needed break from all the writing.
(d) Your characters should never speak in dialect.

4. What was Anne's first poem about that got any attention?
(a) John Glenn.
(b) Tiny bubbles.
(c) Sam.
(d) Her father.

5. Who are the two authors that Anne says have written well about plot?
(a) Rosemary Wells and Doreen Cornin.
(b) Flannery O'Conner and Faulkner.
(c) E. M. Forester and John Gardner.
(d) John Gardner and Faulkner.

Short Answer Questions

1. After a half hour of writing, how much material was generated from the school lunch assignment?

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

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

4. What advice does Anne's hypnotist give her about the negative voices?

5. What did Anne's father tell his students to read?

(see the answer key)

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