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

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

3. What does Anne state that financial success guarantees a writer?
(a) More paranoia.
(b) A more expensive set of problems.
(c) Many book signings.
(d) Adoring fans.

4. What does Anne say good writing is about?
(a) Outlines, plots, and themes.
(b) Dialect.
(c) Spelling everything correctly.
(d) Telling the truth.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Anne write at times when she is stuck?

2. Why did we lose access to our broccoli?

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

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

5. What advice does Anne's hypnotist give her about the negative voices?

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