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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Section 6, Polaroids.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Anne's response when her students ask her for the best writing advice?
(a) She tells them to meditate.
(b) She twirls a flower in the air.
(c) She picks up a piece of paper and pantomimes writing on it.
(d) She quotes a Buddhist disciple.

2. Where does Anne tell her students to start with their writing?
(a) Third grade.
(b) Poems.
(c) Childhood.
(d) A near-death experience.

3. What does Anne say you have to get over, or you will not go far in your writing?
(a) Perfectionism.
(b) Paranoia.
(c) Hypochondria.
(d) Jealousy.

4. From where did Anne's Special Olympics article start to emerge?
(a) The cool man.
(b) The girl on crutches.
(c) Her lunch.
(d) A Polaroid of three of the athletes.

5. What is a recurring problem that Anne sees in her students?
(a) They do not have good agents.
(b) They really want to be published, and kind of want to write.
(c) They are too busy writing to listen to her class.
(d) They are bad spellers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Vonnegut's comment on writing?

2. When Anne is participating in the school lunch writing assignment, what does she say about hers?

3. Why does Anne write?

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

5. What advice did Anne's father give her brother when he was overwhelmed at writing a report on birds?

(see the answer key)

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