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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 Part 1, Section 6, Polaroids, what was Anne's finished article about?
(a) Tragedy transfromed to joy and sheer effort.
(b) The runners.
(c) The "cool man" game.
(d) The girl on crutches.

2. Where does plot grow from?
(a) A good outline.
(b) A one-inch picture frame.
(c) Characters.
(d) A good topsoil.

3. Where does the image of putting an octopus to bed come from?
(a) The nursing home.
(b) The octopus' mother.
(c) Pammy's memorial garden.
(d) Recovery.

4. What does Anne say that unpublished writers need?
(a) Lots of material on index cards.
(b) To be ripped apart for their awful work.
(c) Attention and honesty.
(d) A good plot treatment.

5. What does Anne warn about doing with your characters?
(a) Getting them to do something because it is convenient to the plot.
(b) Placing them in an improper set.
(c) Giving them only one page of description.
(d) Letting them speak in dialect.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Anne keep her index cards?

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

3. Ten days before Pammy died, she went shopping with Anne. On this excursion Anne figured out what Pammy's essence was. What was it?

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

5. Anne does not agree with the word "block," which suggests something is constipated or stuck. How does she describe 'writer's block'?

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