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

2. What does the one-inch picture frame remind her of?
(a) How big her mole is getting.
(b) That she only has to write one inch of words that day.
(c) All she has to do is write as much as she can see through the one-inch picture frame.
(d) How she is too old for orthodontia.

3. From where did Anne's Special Olympics article start to emerge?
(a) The cool man.
(b) A Polaroid of three of the athletes.
(c) Her lunch.
(d) The girl on crutches.

4. What is Anne's third suggestion about putting together good dialogue?
(a) Put two people, who would never want to be together, in a close situation. They will have lots to say.
(b) Insert clever dialogue whenever possible.
(c) Dialogue emerges entirely from the plot. Listen to the plot.
(d) Put two people who have lots in common together for teatime.

5. Where does the image of putting an octopus to bed come from?
(a) The nursing home.
(b) Pammy's memorial garden.
(c) The octopus' mother.
(d) Recovery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is publication like for Anne?

2. In Part 1, Section 6, Polaroids, who was the self-proclaimed "cool man?"

3. What image does Anne use to help her gather dialog for characters?

4. Who are the two authors that Anne says have written well about plot?

5. When writing towards a scene, why may you find it is all wrong when you finish it?

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