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

2. What advice does Anne's hypnotist give her about the negative voices?
(a) Listen to the voices and do exactly what each one says.
(b) Pretend you are on a TV talkshow.
(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.

3. When Anne showed up at the Special Olympics to write an article, did she know what she was going to write?
(a) She had no idea of what the finished article would be.
(b) Yes, she was going to write a food review about the hot dogs there.
(c) No, she was not even very interested.
(d) Yes, about a girl on crutches.

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

5. In Part 1, Section 6, Polaroids, what was Anne's finished article about?
(a) The "cool man" game.
(b) The runners.
(c) Tragedy transfromed to joy and sheer effort.
(d) The girl on crutches.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is at least half the battle Anne faces in her daily writing?

3. Why does Anne write?

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

5. In Part 1, Section 6, Polaroids, who was the self-proclaimed "cool man?"

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