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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Section 6, Writers Block.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Henry James' classic line about a writer looking for his glasses which were atop his head?
(a) "A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost."
(b) "A writer is someone who looses lots."
(c) "A writer is someone who has lots to loose."
(d) "A writer always needs to wear his glasses."

2. Where does Anne tell her students to start with their writing?
(a) Third grade.
(b) A near-death experience.
(c) Poems.
(d) Childhood.

3. How does a writer end up with a good second draft or a terrific third draft?
(a) By getting a good agent.
(b) By hiring an excellent editor.
(c) By writing a bad first draft.
(d) By drinking lots of wine.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Anne say you have to get over, or you will not go far in your writing?

2. How does Anne tell her students to train the unconscious to kick in?

3. What does Anne state that financial success guarantees a writer?

4. Where does plot grow from?

5. What is Anne's first suggestion about writing dialogue?

(see the answer key)

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