Bird by Bird Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

Anne Lamott
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 170 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Bird by Bird Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

Anne Lamott
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 170 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Section 5, Letters.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When you start think there is one more thing you could do, what should you remind yourself?
(a) Dr. Suess refuses to eat the broccoli.
(b) Your characters have evolved, time to move on.
(c) Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.
(d) The octopus is snoring, time to move on.

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

3. What does Anne state is the most degrading occupational hazard of being a writer?
(a) KFKD.
(b) Unruly characters.
(c) Jealousy.
(d) Paranoia.

4. Besides going to classes and conferences, what is another way to receive feedback from other writers?
(a) Send your work via email to every address you have.
(b) Start a writing group.
(c) Solicit advice from people you meet at bookstores.
(d) Mail other writers your drafts and hope they respond to you.

5. What are great language tools that explain the unknown in terms of the known to the reader?
(a) Metaphors.
(b) A garden and river.
(c) Similes.
(d) Plots.

Short Answer Questions

1. How else does Anne say you might you know you are done?

2. What does the image of putting an octopus to bed describe?

3. After a half hour of writing, how much material was generated from the school lunch assignment?

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

5. Where did Anne get the idea to use broccoli as her intuition?

(see the answer key)

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