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Bird by Bird | Quiz

Anne Lamott
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Bird by Bird | Quiz

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1)

What was Anne writing about when she contacted an expert to help her with the set design? (from Part 1, Section 10, Set Design)

A Special Olympics race.
A vegetable medley.
A kitchen.
A garden.
2)

What are bound galleys? (from Part 4, Section 4, Publication)

Where a cook is chained to the kitchen on a ship.
A paper-bound book with manuscript set in type.
A paper-bound book with food reviews on it.
Your manuscript held together by a galley.
3)

What do most of Anne's students assume about why well-respected writers's books turn out beautifully? (from Part 1, Section 12, Plot Treatment)

They have outlined the plot.
They analyze each character.
They drink wine.
They are subject matter experts.
4)

What do readers want to know about characters besides their superficial values? (from Part 1, Section 11, False Starts)

How they smell.
What they eat.
Their hair color.
Their essence.
5)

What does the image of putting an octopus to bed describe? (from Part 1, Section 13, How Do You Know You Are Done)

Making all the voices quiet.
Exactly what it says, putting an octopus to bed.
Solving problems in a final draft.
Putting the nursing home residents to bed.
6)

According to Anne, when did we hear and listen to our intuition? (from Part 2, Section 3, Broccoli)

As teenagers.
As children.
At age 20.
As adults.
7)

What is publication like for Anne? (from Part 4, Section 4, Publication)

A joyous event and all her self-doubt is erased.
It is really uneventful, no one notices or comments.
Her phone rings off the hook with friends and publishers calling her.
The last few weeks of pregnancy and the first day of seventh-day PE class.
8)

According to Anne, becoming a writer is about becoming ________. (from Part 4, Section 5, The Last Class)

Published.
Truthful.
Conscious.
Famous.
9)

Where does Anne say a moral position begins? (from Part 2, Section 2, The Moral Point of View)

In a proper set design.
In the plot treatment.
In a bad first draft.
In the heart of a character.
10)

In Anne's experience, and the experience of other writer's she knows, how easily does plot structure come? (from Part 1, Section 12, Plot Treatment)

It is like a Gulf stream going through a straw.
It tends to come like the development of a Polaroid.
Not easily at all.
Easy as pie.
11)

How does Anne suggest finding a partner to read your work? (from Part 3, Section 4, Someone to Read Your Drafts)

Ask someone who rarely reads if they would read your work.
Put an ad in the paper or on the bulletin board.
Ask someone who is a best seller if they would like to work with you.
Ask someone whose work you admire if they would like to work with you.
12)

What is the best way to quiet KFKD? (from Part 2, Section 4, Radio Station KFKD)

Realize it is on, have a writing ritual, and breathe.
Call a friend.
Earplugs.
Blast heavy-metal music.
13)

When you start think there is one more thing you could do, what should you remind yourself? (from Part 1, Section 13, How Do You Know You Are Done)

The octopus is snoring, time to move on.
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.
Dr. Suess refuses to eat the broccoli.
Your characters have evolved, time to move on.
14)

How does Anne wish she could write all the time? (from Part 4, Publication and Other Reasons to Write, Section 1, Writing a Present)

Carefully and soulfully.
Truthfully and soulfully.
Passionately and accurately.
Fastly and accurately.
15)

Ten days before Pammy died, she went shopping with Anne. On this excursion Anne figured out what Pammy's essence was. What was it? (from Part 1, Section 11, False Starts)

It was about how well she wrote checks.
It was about who she was, not her clothes.
It was about her checks and her clothes.
It was about who she was, not what she could do with her hands.
16)

What are good ways to start writing groups? (from Part 3, Section 3, Writing Groups)

Ask people from class, or put an ad in the newpapers and on bulletin boards.
Ask people on the street and your family members.
Put an ad in the newspaper and ask your family members.
Put an ad on a bulletin board and ask people on the street.
17)

Where did the book Anne wrote about her friend Pammy originate? (from Part 4, Publication and Other Reasons to Write, Section 1, Writing a Present)

Journal entries about Sam as a baby.
A short assignment about index cards.
Her father's book.
A letter to the San Francisco Giants.
18)

What does Anne sometimes use her index cards for? (from Part 3, Help Along the Way, Section 1, Index Cards)

Set design.
Thought provoking party favors.
Short assignments, to get writing again.
Nothing, she throws them all away.
19)

You brought your work into being, what does Anne say you must give it every day? (from Part 4, Section 3, Giving)

Time and patience.
Food, health, advice, and love.
You do not have to give your work anything on a daily basis.
Good plot lines and a terrific set.
20)

Why does Anne state you should explore and understand your childhood? (from Part 4, Section 5, The Last Class)

To get rid of past baggage.
To gain the ability to empathize.
To find good material to write about.
To gain the ability to write children's books.
21)

A moral position is not a message, but what is it according to Anne? (from Part 2, Section 2, The Moral Point of View)

Something to spend a couple of paragraphs on in your book.
Wishful thinking.
Something you need to make sure everyone believes, or you shouldn't associate with them.
A passionate caring inside you.
22)

How many people have told Anne they were thankful to know what the wire was on champagne bottles? (from Part 3, Section 2, Calling Around)

Three.
One.
Hundreds.
Five.
23)

What does Anne say the single greatest obstacle is to listening to your broccoli? (from Part 2, Section 4, Radio Station KFKD)

The paranoid voices.
Inconsistency with your characters.
Radio station KFKD.
Radishes, they always overpower everything.
24)

Of Anne's former students, the four that formed a writing group, how many of them had been published? (from Part 3, Section 3, Writing Groups)

All of them.
None.
One.
Two.
25)

What was the image from a medieval monk, Brother Lawerence, that helped Anne come to terms with the residents in the nursing home? (from Part 1, Section 11, False Starts)

That we, like trees in the winter, have nothing to give, but are there to be loved unconditionally.
Do not worry about tomorrow, today has enough worry for all.
Treat others as you would want to be treated.
We are all dust in the wind.
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