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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Help Along the Way, Section 1, Index Cards.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Anne determine needs to be at the center of your stories?
(a) Something you care passionately about.
(b) A good climax.
(c) A beautiful set design.
(d) Grape jelly, raspberry has too many seeds.

2. What is Anne's father's occupation?
(a) Librarian.
(b) Real Estate Agent.
(c) Hippie.
(d) Writer.

3. What is the way to hold a reader's attention?
(a) Good plots.
(b) Drama.
(c) Pictures.
(d) Dialogue.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What advice does Anne's hypnotist give her about the negative voices?

2. In Anne's opinion, who writes bad first drafts?

3. What does Anne say the single greatest obstacle is to listening to your broccoli?

4. What do most of Anne's students assume about why well-respected writers's books turn out beautifully?

5. How does Anne describe the Polaroid?

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