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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. A moral position is not a message, but what is it according to Anne?
(a) Something you need to make sure everyone believes, or you shouldn't associate with them.
(b) Something to spend a couple of paragraphs on in your book.
(c) A passionate caring inside you.
(d) Wishful thinking.

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

4. Where did Sam's pastor say is the only place we can find peace?
(a) In our hearts.
(b) In publication.
(c) In a fortune cookie.
(d) In meditation.

5. How does Anne wish she could write all the time?
(a) Passionately and accurately.
(b) Truthfully and soulfully.
(c) Carefully and soulfully.
(d) Fastly and accurately.

6. What is the myth of publication, according to Anne?
(a) It is a joyous event and your phone rings off the hook with kudos from friends.
(b) All self-doubt is erased and you get a new home.
(c) There is no myth of publication, it really is a joyous event.
(d) It is a joyous event and all self-doubt is erased.

7. What is the way to the truth, your truth, according to Anne?
(a) Writing as someone else would.
(b) To go through your anger, damage, and grief.
(c) Meditation and expensive therapy.
(d) Endure time alone with your thoguhts.

8. KFKD plays in stereo. What does Anne say plays out of the left and right speakers?
(a) It does not play in stereo at all, everybody knows you are the best writer in the world.
(b) Right speaker plays how awful you are, the left how awul your writing is.
(c) Right speaker plays how gifted your are, the left how awful your writing is.
(d) Right speaker plays how gifted you are, the left how incredible your writing is.

9. When you are still, and breathing calmly, what can happen, according to Anne?
(a) You can hear the voices of your characters, above the rantings of KFKD.
(b) You fall asleep.
(c) KFKD blares louder than ever.
(d) You can write from the perspective of the fourteenth Dalai Lama.

10. Why does Anne say we are to tell the truth and write in our own voice?
(a) Because it says so in the writer's manual.
(b) If you write using someone elses voice, they will be jealous.
(c) You do not want a libel suit on your hands.
(d) Because it is our nature.

11. Why did Pammy's doctor tell Anne to watch Pammy carefully in her final days?
(a) Pammy was teaching Anne how to live.
(b) For Anne to see that cancer affects the body, but the essence of the person lives.
(c) For Anne to call and report Pammy's progress.
(d) Pammy's doctor did not want her as a patient any more.

12. What did Anne's book do for her father?
(a) Gave him the best possible months before he died and the best death.
(b) It gave him hope to get better.
(c) It gave him an ulcer, because Anne was not a very good writer at this point.
(d) It gave him inspiration to write a book before he died.

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

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

15. What voice does Anne say is the real and true voice of a writer?
(a) The voice playing on KFKD.
(b) Another writer's voice.
(c) The broccoli voice.
(d) Their own voice.

Short Answer Questions

1. Anne does not agree with the word "block," which suggests something is constipated or stuck. How does she describe 'writer's block'?

2. According to Anne, what two things can teach you to give of yourself?

3. Anne has written two books and a short story as presents. Who were they for?

4. According to Anne, when did we hear and listen to our intuition?

5. What does the fourteenth Dalai Lama claim to be his religion?

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