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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Section 3, Broccoli.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is at least half the battle Anne faces in her daily writing?
(a) Quieting the critical voices.
(b) Having enough paper in the printer.
(c) All the characters talking at one time.
(d) Writing a bad first draft.

2. According to Anne, when did we hear and listen to our intuition?
(a) At age 20.
(b) As teenagers.
(c) As children.
(d) As adults.

3. What is the best thing to do when you have a decision to make and do not know what to do?
(a) Call your mother for advice.
(b) Something, anything; making a mistake is better than doing nothing.
(c) Sit in a corner with your arms around your knees, and just start rocking back and forth.
(d) Flip a coin.

4. What is Anne's first suggestion about writing dialogue?
(a) Read your words out loud.
(b) Always write in dialect.
(c) Secretly record your friends talking and use their words exactly, without asking permission.
(d) Copy conversations you hear in public.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When you start think there is one more thing you could do, what should you remind yourself?

2. Where did Anne get the idea to use broccoli as her intuition?

3. If we do not have our broccoli to help us write, what guides us?

4. In Part 1, Section 6, Polaroids, what was Anne's finished article about?

5. What is the question Anne's students always ask?

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