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

2. How does Anne define perfectionism?
(a) A mean, frozen form of idealism.
(b) The only way to write.
(c) Chewing gum will relieve it.
(d) An abundantly jealous form of writing.

3. Why does Anne write?
(a) She has read C. S. Lewis.
(b) She wants to and she is good at it.
(c) She is a good typist.
(d) Her father was a writer.

4. What was Vonnegut's comment on writing?
(a) Writing is an extension of the soul onto a blank canvas in sheer poetic movements.
(b) When I write, I shoot for the stars and end up somewhere on the moon.
(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.

5. What advice does Anne's hypnotist give her about the negative voices?
(a) Pretend you are on a TV talkshow.
(b) Listen to the voices and do exactly what each one says.
(c) Imagine they are dogs snarling at you and yell at them.
(d) Imagine they are mice, pick them up, and drop them in a mason jar with a lid.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Anne say you have to get over, or you will not go far in your writing?

3. What does Anne say perfectionism will block?

4. What did Anne's father tell his students to read?

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

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