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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Anne state that financial success guarantees a writer?
(a) A more expensive set of problems.
(b) Adoring fans.
(c) Many book signings.
(d) More paranoia.

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

3. How many people have told Anne they were thankful to know what the wire was on champagne bottles?
(a) Hundreds.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

4. What are great language tools that explain the unknown in terms of the known to the reader?
(a) A garden and river.
(b) Similes.
(c) Metaphors.
(d) Plots.

5. What was Vonnegut's comment on writing?
(a) Writing is an extension of the soul onto a blank canvas in sheer poetic movements.
(b) When I write, I shoot for the stars and end up somewhere on the moon.
(c) I write with crayons, it is prettier.
(d) When I write, I feel like an armless legless man with a crayon in his mouth.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Anne, what is the way to "nail" a character?

2. What are good ways to start writing groups?

3. At what age did Anne start writing?

4. In Part 1, Section 6, Polaroids, who was the self-proclaimed "cool man?"

5. What did Jean Rhys write about the success of writers?

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