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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Help Along the Way, Section 1, Index Cards.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do you get your confidence and intuition back?
(a) By calling a friend.
(b) By exercising daily.
(c) By taking a writing class.
(d) By stopping the chattering of the rational mind.

2. What does Anne state that financial success guarantees a writer?
(a) A more expensive set of problems.
(b) More paranoia.
(c) Adoring fans.
(d) Many book signings.

3. Where does Anne keep her index cards?
(a) Everywhere.
(b) In her pocket and in her car.
(c) In a nice stack on her desk.
(d) In her purse.

4. What did Jean Rhys write about the success of writers?
(a) What is good for one is good for all.
(b) Enjoy your success, this is your moment that you have earned.
(c) Worker bees work, queen bees get the glory.
(d) The Gulf Stream is big, get a straw.

5. What constructive way does Anne suggest a writer deal with jealousy?
(a) Tell your therapist about the feelings.
(b) Write down your feelings then crumple up the paper and throw it away.
(c) Simply forget about it and move on, because your turn is next.
(d) Use it as material in a book.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can yield strange characters lurking in the shadows, according to Anne?

2. How did Anne feel after the basketball game?

3. What does Anne use index cards for?

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

5. In Anne's comments on the Gulf Stream, what is the straw a metaphor for?

(see the answer key)

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