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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Section 4, Publication.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the title, False Starts, mean?
(a) When you start writing too soon, without doing your research.
(b) When you have to scrap your bad first draft.
(c) You think you know about the character, but as you start writing, you can find out you were wrong.
(d) Set design never turns out like you think it will.

2. What does Anne say must first happen before we can recognize others for who they are?
(a) Watch them for a year.
(b) Visit with them for a few hours.
(c) Ask them who they think they really are, it is so telling.
(d) Compassionately knowing who you are.

3. What ultimately helped Anne overcome her jealousy?
(a) Talking to a friend.
(b) Meditation.
(c) Going to visit family.
(d) Feeling it and then writing about it.

4. What does the one-inch picture frame remind her of?
(a) How big her mole is getting.
(b) That she only has to write one inch of words that day.
(c) How she is too old for orthodontia.
(d) All she has to do is write as much as she can see through the one-inch picture frame.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When you are stuck in your writing, but you can not leave it alone, what is something Anne suggests to try?

2. Besides calling around, what is another way to escape the isolation of writing?

3. According to Anne, what two things can teach you to give of yourself?

4. Anne tells her students they can use paranoia as wonderful material, and then recites a poem. Who is the author of the poem?

5. Why did Pammy's doctor tell Anne to watch Pammy carefully in her final days?

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