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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When you start thinking like a writer, where does Anne suggest you get your material?
(a) When you walk your dog.
(b) At the supermarket.
(c) Everywhere, everything can be used as material.
(d) During meditation.

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

3. What is libel?
(a) Making untrue accusations.
(b) What you can sue the papers for and get lots of money.
(c) Defamation by written or printed word.
(d) It is the liberty within us all.

4. What does Anne say has cosmic importance?
(a) Taking all the classes she has to offer.
(b) Learning to write good plot treatments.
(c) Learning to be a giver.
(d) Learning to squash all feelings of jealousy.

5. How do Anne's students often respond when asked why they want to write?
(a) They do not want to be silenced anymore.
(b) They want to get published.
(c) They want money, fame, and fortune.
(d) They are looking for a writing companion.

6. Where did the book Anne wrote about her friend Pammy originate?
(a) Journal entries about Sam as a baby.
(b) A short assignment about index cards.
(c) A letter to the San Francisco Giants.
(d) Her father's book.

7. Before she sends copies to her editor or agent, who reads Anne's drafts for her?
(a) A student and a librarian.
(b) Her best friend and a librarian.
(c) Her two best friends.
(d) Her son and the guy at the copy shop.

8. What is the best way to quiet KFKD?
(a) Blast heavy-metal music.
(b) Earplugs.
(c) Realize it is on, have a writing ritual, and breathe.
(d) Call a friend.

9. What does Ms. Allende's writing style offer to the reader?
(a) Nourishment of the imagination and wonder.
(b) A sense of being understood.
(c) A headache.
(d) Sharp turns and suspenseful drama.

10. From what assignment did Anne end up writing a letter to her son?
(a) There was no assignment, she just wanted to write a letter to her son.
(b) Essay about being a life-long Giants fan.
(c) Essay about San Francisco.
(d) Essay about baseball.

11. Secretly, why do some people attend Anne's writing class?
(a) To become her friend.
(b) To socialize.
(c) In hopes she will love their writing and send it to her agent.
(d) To learn how to write better.

12. What are good ways to start writing groups?
(a) Ask people on the street and your family members.
(b) Put an ad in the newspaper and ask your family members.
(c) Ask people from class, or put an ad in the newpapers and on bulletin boards.
(d) Put an ad on a bulletin board and ask people on the street.

13. Every writer needs discipline, but what is one way Anne suggests to give yourself a break and still be productive?
(a) Calling around.
(b) Meditate.
(c) Writing on index cards.
(d) Eat a Kit-Kat bar.

14. What is Henry James' classic line about a writer looking for his glasses which were atop his head?
(a) "A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost."
(b) "A writer is someone who has lots to loose."
(c) "A writer is someone who looses lots."
(d) "A writer always needs to wear his glasses."

15. What does Anne consider a most depressing experience?
(a) Writer's block.
(b) Editors not liking your work.
(c) Jealousy.
(d) Having so much material you can not write fast enough.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Anne and her friend Carpenter do for each other on the day they both had books out?

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

3. When writing her letter to Sam, who did Anne picture peering over her shoulder?

4. What Sharon Olds poem does Anne pass out at every class?

5. Why does Anne state that writing matters?

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