Shell shenanigans

Hey nerds, I'm (obviously new to this) working on a simple shell script and this is my question:

echo Is your name Anonymous? (Y/N):
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How do I get the input (answer) to be on the same line as the question?

Use the -n option to echo to prevent it from printing the implicit newline.

Also you will need to either escape the parenthesis or enclose the string inside doublequotes.
echo -n "Is your name Anonymous? (Y/N): "
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