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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. Why did we lose access to our broccoli?
(a) Dr. Suess took it away.
(b) Writer's block.
(c) Grown-ups corrected, ridiculed, or punished us for our words.
(d) We got lazy.

2. In Anne's experience, and the experience of other writer's she knows, how easily does plot structure come?
(a) It is like a Gulf stream going through a straw.
(b) Easy as pie.
(c) It tends to come like the development of a Polaroid.
(d) Not easily at all.

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

4. Where does Anne tell her students to start with their writing?
(a) Poems.
(b) Third grade.
(c) A near-death experience.
(d) Childhood.

5. How does knowledge of your characters emerge, according to Anne?
(a) Characters come after you finish a good outline.
(b) Quickly and easily.
(c) Like a sunrise, full of beauty and splendor.
(d) Like a Polaroid, it takes time to know them.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 1, Section 6, Polaroids, who was the self-proclaimed "cool man?"

2. What can yield strange characters lurking in the shadows, according to Anne?

3. Where does plot grow from?

4. Where does Anne say a moral position begins?

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

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