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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Section 6, Writers Block.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When you are stuck in your writing, but you can not leave it alone, what is something Anne suggests to try?
(a) Writing part of a character's history in the form of a letter.
(b) Write the same word over and over, noticing every letter and the sound it makes.
(c) Writing part of a character's history in a one-inch picture frame.
(d) Go ahead and take a break, make a phone call.

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

3. In Part 1, Section 6, Polaroids, who was the self-proclaimed "cool man?"
(a) Sam.
(b) A tall African American man.
(c) The referee of the basketball game.
(d) A boy against a fence.

4. According to Anne, your unconscious cannot work when this is going on.
(a) When you are breathing down its neck.
(b) When you are jealous.
(c) When you cannot get a particular song out of your head.
(d) When KFKD is on.

5. What did Anne's therapist tell her jealousy was?
(a) An emotion that can tear apart friends.
(b) An emotion that can irritate her ulcers.
(c) An emotion to be ignored and forgotten.
(d) A secondary emotion from feeling excluded and deprived.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Anne, what is the way to "nail" a character?

2. What is Henry James' classic line about a writer looking for his glasses which were atop his head?

3. What do readers want to know about characters besides their superficial values?

4. Where does Anne tell her students to start with their writing?

5. According to Anne, what is one thing that can make a book very tiring to read?

(see the answer key)

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