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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Section 4, Publication.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. KFKD plays in stereo. What does Anne say plays out of the left and right speakers?
(a) Right speaker plays how gifted your are, the left how awful your writing is.
(b) It does not play in stereo at all, everybody knows you are the best writer in the world.
(c) Right speaker plays how awful you are, the left how awul your writing is.
(d) Right speaker plays how gifted you are, the left how incredible your writing is.

2. What kind of feedback do the two people that read Anne's drafts give her?
(a) How to make her story into a blockbuster movie.
(b) How to make her story funnier, stronger, more interesting, and less tedious.
(c) How to make her story less tedious and in funnier dialect.
(d) How to make her story more interesting and publication ready.

3. What can yield strange characters lurking in the shadows, according to Anne?
(a) Eating school lunches.
(b) Working on a good plot line.
(c) Meditating.
(d) Taking a short assignment and writing a bad first draft.

4. Of Anne's former students, the four that formed a writing group, how many of them had been published?
(a) Two.
(b) All of them.
(c) One.
(d) None.

5. According to Anne, your unconscious cannot work when this is going on.
(a) When you are jealous.
(b) When KFKD is on.
(c) When you are breathing down its neck.
(d) When you cannot get a particular song out of your head.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Anne's third suggestion about putting together good dialogue?

3. How many people have told Anne they were thankful to know what the wire was on champagne bottles?

4. What does Anne consider a most depressing experience?

5. How do you get your confidence and intuition back?

(see the answer key)

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