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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. Paying attention is a powerful antidote for what?
(a) Paranoia.
(b) Sleepless nights.
(c) A hangover.
(d) The rational mind.

2. A moral position is not a message, but what is it according to Anne?
(a) A passionate caring inside you.
(b) Wishful thinking.
(c) Something you need to make sure everyone believes, or you shouldn't associate with them.
(d) Something to spend a couple of paragraphs on in your book.

3. After a half hour of writing, how much material was generated from the school lunch assignment?
(a) The perfect amount for a short story.
(b) None, her students did not eat lunch.
(c) Enough to write two or three books.
(d) Too much for Anne and some of the people in class, it threatened to immoblize them.

4. What is Anne's response to her students question about knowing when they are done?
(a) "You just do."
(b) When characters evolve.
(c) When Dr. Suess eats the broccoli.
(d) When the octopus is snoring.

5. According to Anne, what is the way to "nail" a character?
(a) Hammers.
(b) Plot.
(c) Set design.
(d) Dialogue.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the title, False Starts, mean?

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

3. What was Vonnegut's comment on writing?

4. When talking with a subject expert about kitchens, what are good questions to ask about the kitchen?

5. Where does the image of putting an octopus to bed come from?

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