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

2. What was the image from a medieval monk, Brother Lawerence, that helped Anne come to terms with the residents in the nursing home?
(a) Do not worry about tomorrow, today has enough worry for all.
(b) Treat others as you would want to be treated.
(c) We are all dust in the wind.
(d) That we, like trees in the winter, have nothing to give, but are there to be loved unconditionally.

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

4. When you are stuck in your writing, but you can not leave it alone, what is something Anne suggests to try?
(a) Write the same word over and over, noticing every letter and the sound it makes.
(b) Writing part of a character's history in a one-inch picture frame.
(c) Go ahead and take a break, make a phone call.
(d) Writing part of a character's history in the form of a letter.

5. What does Anne sometimes use her index cards for?
(a) Nothing, she throws them all away.
(b) Thought provoking party favors.
(c) Set design.
(d) Short assignments, to get writing again.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Anne's first suggestion about writing dialogue?

2. What is the best thing to do when you have a decision to make and do not know what to do?

3. Ten days before Pammy died, she went shopping with Anne. On this excursion Anne figured out what Pammy's essence was. What was it?

4. According to Anne, what is one thing that can make a book very tiring to read?

5. What is the way to hold a reader's attention?

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