Free AABC Practice Questions

Question 1

Leila fights to retain her share of a family house because she believes yielding it would reward her brother's irresponsibility. An Inside Outline then pairs finding records of their mother's secret financial support for him with Leila transferring her share to him. It gives no account of her response to the records. What does the coach need before evaluating that transition?

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Leila's interpretation of the discovery and its connection to her changed decision.

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A scene showing the brother ask for the house so the transfer follows a clearly stated request.

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A higher cost for keeping the house, to sharpen the external conflict.

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The childhood event that first divided the siblings.

Question 2

The coach recommends cutting a scene in which a father teaches his adult daughter to repair a radio, calling it a pause in the main conflict. The writer replies, 'It's the first time she lets him help. Until then she won't accept anything from him.' Rereading confirms that this is the first observable change in their relationship, although it is easy to miss among technical details. Which reply best moves the revision forward?

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'That changes my reading. Where could we make her choice to accept help clearer?'

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'We may be a poor fit; I should refer you to a coach who agrees about this scene.'

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'Then let's leave the scene untouched; your explanation resolves the concern.'

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'Let's cut it anyway and describe her new attitude later to restore momentum.'

Question 3

The proposal's promise is 'a practical introduction to recording neighborhood stories, written for first-time volunteers.' Its annotated contents move from finding interviewees to conducting and organizing interviews. The sample chapter is an accomplished theoretical essay on memory; it assumes specialist terminology and offers none of the interview guidance described for that chapter. The author asks what would most strengthen the proposal's evidence of execution.

Accepted Answer

Revise the sample to demonstrate the accessible, practical chapter promised in the contents.

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Replace the sample with an expanded table of contents describing the practical material that will eventually be written.

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Add a glossary after the sample so beginners can decode its specialist terminology while reading the essay.

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Strengthen the biography so the theoretical approach is supported by the author's scholarly credentials and research experience.

Question 4

A memoirist remembers leaving home with her sister at dawn. Her sister recalls that they left together after school. Both agree why they left and what they said to each other; the time of day is not important to the book's point. No contemporaneous record resolves the difference. The writer asks, 'Does this mean I have to lose the scene?' What is the soundest editorial recommendation?

Accepted Answer

Keep the episode without asserting an exact departure time; the central recollection is not disputed.

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Remove the scene until both sisters' accounts agree and independent verification is available.

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Use afternoon as fact because agreement on other details corroborates the sister's timing.

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Keep dawn as fact because the narrator's memory takes precedence in a memoir.

Question 5

The middle of an adventure novel intended as one escalating quest contains five vivid expeditions. The protagonist chooses each route, makes decisions that determine each expedition's outcome, and faces substantial losses. Yet the discoveries and consequences of one expedition do not affect the next; the five could be reordered without changing the larger story. The writer proposes shorter sentences to fix what readers call a 'slow middle.' The more precise diagnosis is:

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Episodic structure: the expeditions do not accumulate into a causal progression.

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Excessive exposition: the scenes need less background and more dramatized action.

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Weak agency: the protagonist does not determine individual outcomes.

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Insufficient stakes: the expeditions need more immediate danger to sustain the reader's interest.

Question 6

On a writer's progress tracker, '75% complete' means 60,000 first-draft words toward an 80,000-word target. The writer can sustain 2,500 new words per week. The agreed schedule then reserves two weeks for complete-manuscript review and four weeks for the writer's revision; these phases cannot overlap with drafting or each other. The writer needs a delivery estimate for the revised manuscript, not merely the first draft. Which estimate correctly interprets the tracker?

Accepted Answer

Fourteen weeks: the tracker omits the separate review and revision phases.

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Eight weeks: the remaining first-draft words account for the unfinished portion of the project.

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Ten weeks: finish the remaining draft, then add the complete-manuscript review.

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Twelve weeks: finish drafting, then add the writer's revision period.

Question 7

Chapter 1 of an Outcome Outline promises that first-time workshop facilitators will 'understand why workshops need a purpose.' Chapter 2 promises that they will 'appreciate the importance of a clear purpose.' Chapter 3 promises that they will 'run the session,' but assumes an agenda no chapter teaches them to create. To retain three chapters that together teach readers to plan and run a session, Chapter 2 should enable readers to:

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Design an agenda whose activities and timings deliver the chosen workshop purpose.

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Explain why a session without a purpose can disappoint participants.

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Compare contrasting examples of clear and unclear workshop purposes.

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Reflect on their experiences as participants in well-organized workshops.

Question 8

The query and synopsis for a novel both stop at an art conservator's dilemma: expose her mentor's forgery or protect her apprenticeship. In the manuscript, she exposes him and loses the position. The agent requested a synopsis covering the complete plot. How should the two documents handle this ending?

Accepted Answer

Let the query pose the dilemma; have the synopsis trace her exposure of the mentor and its cost.

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Keep both documents unresolved so the agent discovers the ending in the manuscript.

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Let the synopsis pose the dilemma; reveal the ending in the query.

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Describe her career setback in the synopsis, but keep her choice about exposing the mentor undisclosed until the manuscript.

Question 9

Six of eight chapters in a balcony-gardening manuscript require access to a garden plot. The writer has commissioned developmental feedback and remains committed to helping apartment dwellers grow food on a low budget without land. The opening also repeats a phrase, and the headings are inconsistent. Which assignment belongs first in the editorial letter?

Accepted Answer

Redesign the chapter plan around growing conditions the promised reader can actually meet.

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Polish the opening's description of the intended reader.

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Standardize the headings to give the existing chapters a consistent presentation.

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Replace specialist vocabulary with everyday language before asking the writer to reconsider the existing chapter content.

Question 10

'At nine, I watched Dad lock his suitcase. I knew that his employer had dismissed him the previous morning.' The memoirist actually learned about the dismissal from a letter she found in her thirties; at nine, she believed he was taking a business trip. The revision must preserve both the child's experience and the adult's later knowledge. What should change?

Accepted Answer

Show the business-trip belief in the scene, then identify the dismissal as something learned later.

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Remove the later explanation because a memoir must remain within the knowledge available during the original events.

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Tell the scene in present tense to make the adult explanation feel immediate.

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Keep the childhood knowledge because the letter confirms the dismissal.

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