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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Anne suggest students do when faced with "writer's block?"
(a) Accept that they are not in a creative period right now, in doing so you free yourself to fill up again.
(b) Write about school breakfasts to get the creativeness flowing.
(c) Breathe calmly and meditate.
(d) Accept that they are challenged writers who should take her class again later.

2. Anne does not agree with the word "block," which suggests something is constipated or stuck. How does she describe 'writer's block'?
(a) As being as jealous as the green-eyed monster.
(b) As having the rug pulled out from under you.
(c) As being nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.
(d) As being empty.

3. 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) Writing part of a character's history in the form of a letter.
(d) Go ahead and take a break, make a phone call.

4. 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.

5. What does Ms. Allende's writing style offer to the reader?
(a) Sharp turns and suspenseful drama.
(b) Nourishment of the imagination and wonder.
(c) A sense of being understood.
(d) A headache.

6. What kind of feedback do the two people that read Anne's drafts give her?
(a) How to make her story into a blockbuster movie.
(b) How to make her story funnier, stronger, more interesting, and less tedious.
(c) How to make her story more interesting and publication ready.
(d) How to make her story less tedious and in funnier dialect.

7. Every writer needs discipline, but what is one way Anne suggests to give yourself a break and still be productive?
(a) Meditate.
(b) Eat a Kit-Kat bar.
(c) Calling around.
(d) Writing on index cards.

8. Of Anne's former students, the four that formed a writing group, how many of them had been published?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) All of them.
(d) None.

9. How do you get your confidence and intuition back?
(a) By exercising daily.
(b) By taking a writing class.
(c) By stopping the chattering of the rational mind.
(d) By calling a friend.

10. Where does Anne say a moral position begins?
(a) In the plot treatment.
(b) In a bad first draft.
(c) In a proper set design.
(d) In the heart of a character.

11. According to Anne, what two things can teach you to give of yourself?
(a) Your work in progess and your three-year-old.
(b) Characters and short assignments.
(c) A three-year-old and characters.
(d) A credit card bill and a gas guzzling automobile.

12. According to Anne, what can the writing of an informal letter free you from?
(a) Paranoia.
(b) Jealousy.
(c) Plot treatments.
(d) Perfectionism.

13. What does the fourteenth Dalai Lama claim to be his religion?
(a) Good ethics.
(b) Kindness.
(c) Moral position.
(d) Buddhism.

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

15. You brought your work into being, what does Anne say you must give it every day?
(a) Good plot lines and a terrific set.
(b) Time and patience.
(c) You do not have to give your work anything on a daily basis.
(d) Food, health, advice, and love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Jean Rhys write about the success of writers?

2. What is libel?

3. How does Anne suggest you should expect someone to review your work?

4. What does Anne consider a most depressing experience?

5. What did Anne's book do for her father?

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