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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Help Along the Way, Section 1, Index Cards.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What can yield strange characters lurking in the shadows, according to Anne?
(a) Eating school lunches.
(b) Working on a good plot line.
(c) Taking a short assignment and writing a bad first draft.
(d) Meditating.

2. When writing towards a scene, why may you find it is all wrong when you finish it?
(a) Because your subject matter expert finally called you back to talk about set design.
(b) Because the wind is blowing from the west now.
(c) Because of what you have learned about your characters along the way.
(d) Because your editor said it was wrong.

3. What does Anne believe drives a writer's work?
(a) The climax.
(b) The writer believing in the position taken by the characters.
(c) Deadlines.
(d) Publishers.

4. Where did Anne's father teach his class?
(a) San Quentin to the prisoners.
(b) Elementary school to children.
(c) On the street to hippies.
(d) The local community college to kids.

5. What does Anne warn about doing with your characters?
(a) Letting them speak in dialect.
(b) Placing them in an improper set.
(c) Giving them only one page of description.
(d) Getting them to do something because it is convenient to the plot.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Anne's first useful concept about?

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

3. When you start think there is one more thing you could do, what should you remind yourself?

4. What is the best way to quiet KFKD?

5. What does Anne determine needs to be at the center of your stories?

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