Bird by Bird Quiz

Anne Lamott

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

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

A paper-bound book with food reviews on it.

A paper-bound book with manuscript set in type.

Your manuscript held together by a galley.

Where a cook is chained to the kitchen on a ship.

2.

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.

Something you need to make sure everyone believes, or you shouldn't associate with them.

Wishful thinking.

A passionate caring inside you.

3.

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)

Not easily at all.

It tends to come like the development of a Polaroid.

It is like a Gulf stream going through a straw.

Easy as pie.

4.

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.

Solving problems in a final draft.

Putting the nursing home residents to bed.

Exactly what it says, putting an octopus to bed.

5.

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)

Her father's book.

Journal entries about Sam as a baby.

A letter to the San Francisco Giants.

A short assignment about index cards.

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