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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. Where did Anne get the idea to use broccoli as her intuition?
(a) Dr. Suess.
(b) Samuel Goldwyn.
(c) Mel Brooks.
(d) The fourteenth Dalai Lama.

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

3. How does Anne describe the Polaroid?
(a) You are not supposed to know what the picture looks like until it finishes developing.
(b) Quick and easy, just like writing.
(c) You point and shoot at what you think you want, but it does not always turn out as expected.
(d) Anybody can take a Polariod picture, as long as there is film in the camera.

4. What does the image of putting an octopus to bed describe?
(a) Putting the nursing home residents to bed.
(b) Solving problems in a final draft.
(c) Making all the voices quiet.
(d) Exactly what it says, putting an octopus to bed.

5. What is Henry James' classic line about a writer looking for his glasses which were atop his head?
(a) "A writer is someone who has lots to loose."
(b) "A writer always needs to wear his glasses."
(c) "A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost."
(d) "A writer is someone who looses lots."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Anne use to entertain her son, Sam, while he was in the emergency room?

3. What constructive way does Anne suggest a writer deal with jealousy?

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

5. What is the best thing to do when you have a decision to make and do not know what to do?

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