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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Section 4, Publication.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the way to hold a reader's attention?
(a) Drama.
(b) Good plots.
(c) Dialogue.
(d) Pictures.

2. Where does Anne say a moral position begins?
(a) In the heart of a character.
(b) In a bad first draft.
(c) In a proper set design.
(d) In the plot treatment.

3. What does Anne say the single greatest obstacle is to listening to your broccoli?
(a) The paranoid voices.
(b) Radishes, they always overpower everything.
(c) Inconsistency with your characters.
(d) Radio station KFKD.

4. What is the best thing to do when you have a decision to make and do not know what to do?
(a) Call your mother for advice.
(b) Sit in a corner with your arms around your knees, and just start rocking back and forth.
(c) Flip a coin.
(d) Something, anything; making a mistake is better than doing nothing.

5. What does Anne say writers want to happen to a reader as they read about a character?
(a) Recognize how descriptive the character is.
(b) For the reader to be able to see what a wonderful writer has done with the character's dialect.
(c) Recognition of self within the character.
(d) For the reader to have compassion for the character.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Henry James' classic line about a writer looking for his glasses which were atop his head?

2. What does Anne sometimes use her index cards for?

3. What does the fourteenth Dalai Lama claim to be his religion?

4. What is a recurring problem that Anne sees in her students?

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

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