2. The school lunches writing assignment combines which two pieces of writing advice from Anne?
(a) Get started and consult a hypnotist.
(b) Eat chocolate and take plenty of naps.
(c) Short assignments and bad first drafts.
(d) Read poetry and drink wine.

3. 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) The octopus is snoring, time to move on.
(c) Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.
(d) Dr. Suess refuses to eat the broccoli.

4. What movie line does Anne suggest as a good one to tape to the wall of your office?
(a) "Climb every mountain."
(b) "Hey - lighten up, Francis."
(c) "From sun up to sun down I am the best writer in town."
(d) "Jeremiah was a bullfrog."

5. What does Anne warn about doing with your characters?
(a) Getting them to do something because it is convenient to the plot.
(b) Giving them only one page of description.
(c) Placing them in an improper set.
(d) Letting them speak in dialect.

6. In working on set design for your book, what does Anne suggest you imagine yourself as?
(a) Set designer for a play or movie.
(b) An operating room nurse, getting utensils ready.
(c) An architect for a building.
(d) A butterfly flitting around a room.

7. What is a plot treatment?
(a) A treatment of the dialog in the book.
(b) It treats the false starts in a book.
(c) A road map of the beginning and end of a chapter, and how the end grows into the following chapter.
(d) It is something done by a big plotting machine.

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

9. In Anne's opinion, who writes bad first drafts?
(a) Reporters.
(b) The birds.
(c) She does.
(d) All good writers.

10. What was Anne writing about when she contacted an expert to help her with the set design?
(a) A vegetable medley.
(b) A kitchen.
(c) A Special Olympics race.
(d) A garden.

11. What does Anne say you have to get over, or you will not go far in your writing?
(a) Jealousy.
(b) Paranoia.
(c) Hypochondria.
(d) Perfectionism.

12. How does knowledge of your characters emerge, according to Anne?
(a) Like a sunrise, full of beauty and splendor.
(b) Like a Polaroid, it takes time to know them.
(c) Characters come after you finish a good outline.
(d) Quickly and easily.

13. What is the question Anne's students always ask?
(a) How can you put an octopus to bed?
(b) What happens when a character changes?
(c) How can I write like Dr. Suess?
(d) How do you know when you are done?

14. How does Anne describe the Polaroid?
(a) You point and shoot at what you think you want, but it does not always turn out as expected.
(b) Quick and easy, just like writing.
(c) Anybody can take a Polariod picture, as long as there is film in the camera.
(d) You are not supposed to know what the picture looks like until it finishes developing.

15. What advice does Anne's hypnotist give her about the negative voices?
(a) Listen to the voices and do exactly what each one says.
(b) Pretend you are on a TV talkshow.
(c) Imagine they are dogs snarling at you and yell at them.
(d) Imagine they are mice, pick them up, and drop them in a mason jar with a lid.