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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. KFKD plays in stereo. What does Anne say plays out of the left and right speakers?
(a) Right speaker plays how awful you are, the left how awul your writing is.
(b) Right speaker plays how gifted your are, the left how awful your writing is.
(c) Right speaker plays how gifted you are, the left how incredible your writing is.
(d) It does not play in stereo at all, everybody knows you are the best writer in the world.

2. What can yield strange characters lurking in the shadows, according to Anne?
(a) Meditating.
(b) Eating school lunches.
(c) Taking a short assignment and writing a bad first draft.
(d) Working on a good plot line.

3. What does the fourteenth Dalai Lama claim to be his religion?
(a) Kindness.
(b) Good ethics.
(c) Buddhism.
(d) Moral position.

4. What is Anne's response when her students ask her for the best writing advice?
(a) She picks up a piece of paper and pantomimes writing on it.
(b) She quotes a Buddhist disciple.
(c) She twirls a flower in the air.
(d) She tells them to meditate.

5. What does Anne sometimes use her index cards for?
(a) Thought provoking party favors.
(b) Set design.
(c) Nothing, she throws them all away.
(d) Short assignments, to get writing again.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Anne's friend tell her that we and our characters have to work within?

3. What is Anne's father's occupation?

4. What does Anne say perfectionism will block?

5. What was Anne writing about when she contacted an expert to help her with the set design?

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