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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) 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.

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

3. From where did Anne's Special Olympics article start to emerge?
(a) A Polaroid of three of the athletes.
(b) The girl on crutches.
(c) The cool man.
(d) Her lunch.

4. 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) Anybody can take a Polariod picture, as long as there is film in the camera.
(c) Quick and easy, just like writing.
(d) You are not supposed to know what the picture looks like until it finishes developing.

5. How else does Anne say you might you know you are done?
(a) You have done the best you can do, and have no more to give.
(b) Your editor tells you that you are done.
(c) The plot has come together beautifully.
(d) Your check arrives in the mail.

Short Answer Questions

1. What advice does Anne's hypnotist give her about the negative voices?

2. According to Anne, when did we hear and listen to our intuition?

3. What magazine did Anne write food reviews for, before it folded?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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