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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Section 3, Broccoli.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Anne's response to her students question about knowing when they are done?
(a) "You just do."
(b) When Dr. Suess eats the broccoli.
(c) When characters evolve.
(d) When the octopus is snoring.

2. How does Anne describe the Polaroid?
(a) You point and shoot at what you think you want, but it does not always turn out as expected.
(b) You are not supposed to know what the picture looks like until it finishes developing.
(c) Anybody can take a Polariod picture, as long as there is film in the camera.
(d) Quick and easy, just like writing.

3. What does the image of putting an octopus to bed describe?
(a) Solving problems in a final draft.
(b) Putting the nursing home residents to bed.
(c) Exactly what it says, putting an octopus to bed.
(d) Making all the voices quiet.

4. When Anne showed up at the Special Olympics to write an article, did she know what she was going to write?
(a) Yes, she was going to write a food review about the hot dogs there.
(b) Yes, about a girl on crutches.
(c) She had no idea of what the finished article would be.
(d) No, she was not even very interested.

5. If we do not have our broccoli to help us write, what guides us?
(a) The set design.
(b) Our rational mind.
(c) The one-inch picture frame.
(d) The plot treatment.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the question Anne's students always ask?

3. How do you get your confidence and intuition back?

4. In Anne's opinion, who writes bad first drafts?

5. What is Anne's first suggestion about writing dialogue?

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