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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. In Anne's opinion, who writes bad first drafts?
(a) Reporters.
(b) The birds.
(c) She does.
(d) All good writers.

2. What does Anne use index cards for?
(a) Taking notes and paper airplanes.
(b) Paper airplanes and picking her teeth.
(c) Making lists and taking notes.
(d) Making lists and picking her teeth.

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

4. Besides going to classes and conferences, what is another way to receive feedback from other writers?
(a) Solicit advice from people you meet at bookstores.
(b) Mail other writers your drafts and hope they respond to you.
(c) Start a writing group.
(d) Send your work via email to every address you have.

5. What does Anne say writers want to happen to a reader as they read about a character?
(a) Recognize how descriptive the character is.
(b) For the reader to have compassion for the character.
(c) For the reader to be able to see what a wonderful writer has done with the character's dialect.
(d) Recognition of self within the character.

Short Answer Questions

1. When you start thinking like a writer, where does Anne suggest you get your material?

2. How does Anne define clutter?

3. Of Anne's former students, the four that formed a writing group, how many of them had been published?

4. When writing her letter to Sam, who did Anne picture peering over her shoulder?

5. What does Anne believe allows us to see the individual person?

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