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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. According to Anne, what is one thing that can make a book very tiring to read?
(a) Dialogue written without any dialect.
(b) Dr. Suess.
(c) Dialogue written in dialect.
(d) Serif font.

2. What does Anne say you have to get over, or you will not go far in your writing?
(a) Paranoia.
(b) Jealousy.
(c) Perfectionism.
(d) Hypochondria.

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?
(a) It was about how well she wrote checks.
(b) It was about who she was, not her clothes.
(c) It was about her checks and her clothes.
(d) It was about who she was, not what she could do with her hands.

4. When you start think there is one more thing you could do, what should you remind yourself?
(a) Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.
(b) Dr. Suess refuses to eat the broccoli.
(c) The octopus is snoring, time to move on.
(d) Your characters have evolved, time to move on.

5. How does Anne define clutter?
(a) Something to be swept under the rug.
(b) Wonderfully fertile ground.
(c) Makes her hold her breath.
(d) Easier to deal with if you put in specific piles.

Short Answer Questions

1. From where did Anne's Special Olympics article start to emerge?

2. What is at least half the battle Anne faces in her daily writing?

3. If we do not have our broccoli to help us write, what guides us?

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

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

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