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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Section 6, Polaroids.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Anne tell her students to train the unconscious to kick in?
(a) Sit down to write at approximately the same time every day.
(b) Drink wine and eat chocolate, then write.
(c) Listen to classical music.
(d) Phone an off-putting friend, that will get your creative juices going.

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

3. What is a recurring problem that Anne sees in her students?
(a) They are bad spellers.
(b) They really want to be published, and kind of want to write.
(c) They are too busy writing to listen to her class.
(d) They do not have good agents.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. From where did Anne's Special Olympics article start to emerge?

3. What is Anne's comment on messes?

4. How does Anne describe writing for herself and most other writers she knows?

5. When Anne is participating in the school lunch writing assignment, what does she say about hers?

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