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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 Anne believe drives a writer's work?
(a) Deadlines.
(b) Publishers.
(c) The climax.
(d) The writer believing in the position taken by the characters.

2. What voice does Anne say is the real and true voice of a writer?
(a) Their own voice.
(b) Another writer's voice.
(c) The voice playing on KFKD.
(d) The broccoli voice.

3. In Anne's comments on the Gulf Stream, what is the straw a metaphor for?
(a) Us, as writers. The river of the story pours through us.
(b) Our fingers, a river of stories pour through them.
(c) KFKD, it is as big as the Gulf Stream.
(d) Our pencil, a river of stories pour though it.

4. What is publication like for Anne?
(a) A joyous event and all her self-doubt is erased.
(b) It is really uneventful, no one notices or comments.
(c) Her phone rings off the hook with friends and publishers calling her.
(d) The last few weeks of pregnancy and the first day of seventh-day PE class.

5. What is the way to the truth, your truth, according to Anne?
(a) Meditation and expensive therapy.
(b) Writing as someone else would.
(c) To go through your anger, damage, and grief.
(d) Endure time alone with your thoguhts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Anne's response to her students question about knowing when they are done?

2. What is Anne's second suggestion about writing dialogue?

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

4. What does Anne say must first happen before we can recognize others for who they are?

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

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