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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Section 5, Letters.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. In working on set design for your book, what does Anne suggest you imagine yourself as?
(a) A butterfly flitting around a room.
(b) Set designer for a play or movie.
(c) An architect for a building.
(d) An operating room nurse, getting utensils ready.
2. How does Anne describe the Polaroid?
(a) You are not supposed to know what the picture looks like until it finishes developing.
(b) Anybody can take a Polariod picture, as long as there is film in the camera.
(c) You point and shoot at what you think you want, but it does not always turn out as expected.
(d) Quick and easy, just like writing.
3. In the beginning of Part 2, what does Anne say writing is about?
(a) "...learning to pay attention and communicate what is going on."
(b) A good plot treatment.
(c) Making up stories about fairies.
(d) Getting published!
4. When you start think there is one more thing you could do, what should you remind yourself?
(a) Your characters have evolved, time to move on.
(b) Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.
(c) The octopus is snoring, time to move on.
(d) Dr. Suess refuses to eat the broccoli.
5. What advice did Anne's father give her brother when he was overwhelmed at writing a report on birds?
(a) "Only write about California birds this time."
(b) "Take pictures of the birds in Bolinas."
(c) "Woody Woodpecker is a great bird to write about."
(d) "Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird."
Short Answer Questions
1. Instead of writing towards a plot, what does Anne suggest?
2. What does the title, False Starts, mean?
3. From where did Anne's Special Olympics article start to emerge?
4. What does Anne say you have to get over, or you will not go far in your writing?
5. In Part 1, Section 6, Polaroids, who was the self-proclaimed "cool man?"
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