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

2. When you are still, and breathing calmly, what can happen, according to Anne?
(a) You fall asleep.
(b) You can write from the perspective of the fourteenth Dalai Lama.
(c) KFKD blares louder than ever.
(d) You can hear the voices of your characters, above the rantings of KFKD.

3. What is Anne's first suggestion about writing dialogue?
(a) Read your words out loud.
(b) Always write in dialect.
(c) Secretly record your friends talking and use their words exactly, without asking permission.
(d) Copy conversations you hear in public.

4. What is Anne's comment on messes?
(a) Messes do not say anything about who we are.
(b) Messes should be kept to a minimum.
(c) They are an artist's true friend.
(d) Hire a housekeeper to clean up your messes.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Anne believe allows us to see the individual person?

2. What is a plot treatment?

3. How does Anne tell her students to train the unconscious to kick in?

4. Anne's editor loved the characters in her book, but what was the problem with the book?

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

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