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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. How does a writer end up with a good second draft or a terrific third draft?
(a) By getting a good agent.
(b) By hiring an excellent editor.
(c) By writing a bad first draft.
(d) By drinking lots of wine.

2. What ultimately helped Anne overcome her jealousy?
(a) Talking to a friend.
(b) Feeling it and then writing about it.
(c) Going to visit family.
(d) Meditation.

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

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

5. What does Anne say that there is ecstasy in?
(a) Wine and chocolate.
(b) Paying attention.
(c) Compassionate detachment.
(d) Ripples in the water.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Anne, what can the writing of an informal letter free you from?

2. Anne tells her students they can use paranoia as wonderful material, and then recites a poem. Who is the author of the poem?

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

4. What are good ways to start writing groups?

5. Where does plot grow from?

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