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

2. What is Anne's first suggestion about writing dialogue?
(a) Copy conversations you hear in public.
(b) Always write in dialect.
(c) Secretly record your friends talking and use their words exactly, without asking permission.
(d) Read your words out loud.

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

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

5. According to Anne, when did we hear and listen to our intuition?
(a) As children.
(b) At age 20.
(c) As teenagers.
(d) As adults.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the image of putting an octopus to bed describe?

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

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

4. How does Anne describe the Polaroid?

5. How does a writer end up with a good second draft or a terrific third draft?

(see the answer key)

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