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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. What is Anne's comment on messes?
(a) Messes should be kept to a minimum.
(b) Messes do not say anything about who we are.
(c) They are an artist's true friend.
(d) Hire a housekeeper to clean up your messes.

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

3. What does Anne say writers want to happen to a reader as they read about a character?
(a) Recognize how descriptive the character is.
(b) For the reader to be able to see what a wonderful writer has done with the character's dialect.
(c) For the reader to have compassion for the character.
(d) Recognition of self within the character.

4. Why did we lose access to our broccoli?
(a) We got lazy.
(b) Writer's block.
(c) Dr. Suess took it away.
(d) Grown-ups corrected, ridiculed, or punished us for our words.

5. What does Anne state is the most degrading occupational hazard of being a writer?
(a) Paranoia.
(b) Unruly characters.
(c) KFKD.
(d) Jealousy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Secretly, why do some people attend Anne's writing class?

2. What was the image from a medieval monk, Brother Lawerence, that helped Anne come to terms with the residents in the nursing home?

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

4. What does Anne tell her students the reason to write is?

5. Why did Pammy's doctor tell Anne to watch Pammy carefully in her final days?

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