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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Section 4, Perfectionism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Anne's father teach his class?
(a) Elementary school to children.
(b) San Quentin to the prisoners.
(c) On the street to hippies.
(d) The local community college to kids.

2. What does Anne say perfectionism will block?
(a) Radio station KFKD and the distracting voices.
(b) Flow, form, and set design.
(c) The heart, mind, and spirit.
(d) Inventiveness, playfulness, and life force.

3. How does Anne tell her students to train the unconscious to kick in?
(a) Drink wine and eat chocolate, then write.
(b) Listen to classical music.
(c) Phone an off-putting friend, that will get your creative juices going.
(d) Sit down to write at approximately the same time every day.

4. What does the one-inch picture frame remind her of?
(a) All she has to do is write as much as she can see through the one-inch picture frame.
(b) That she only has to write one inch of words that day.
(c) How big her mole is getting.
(d) How she is too old for orthodontia.

5. What was Vonnegut's comment on writing?
(a) When I write, I shoot for the stars and end up somewhere on the moon.
(b) Writing is an extension of the soul onto a blank canvas in sheer poetic movements.
(c) When I write, I feel like an armless legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
(d) I write with crayons, it is prettier.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Anne define perfectionism?

3. In Anne's opinion, who writes bad first drafts?

4. How does Anne define clutter?

5. What was Anne's first poem about that got any attention?

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