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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Jean Rhys write about the success of writers?
(a) What is good for one is good for all.
(b) The Gulf Stream is big, get a straw.
(c) Worker bees work, queen bees get the glory.
(d) Enjoy your success, this is your moment that you have earned.

2. Where did the book Anne wrote about her friend Pammy originate?
(a) A letter to the San Francisco Giants.
(b) Her father's book.
(c) A short assignment about index cards.
(d) Journal entries about Sam as a baby.

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

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

5. When writing her letter to Sam, who did Anne picture peering over her shoulder?
(a) Sam.
(b) Her editor.
(c) Dr. Suess.
(d) Pammy.

6. What are two good reasons cited by Anne for calling around?
(a) People enjoy talking about what they know, and you can consider it.
(b) People enjoy talking about what they know, and it keeps you from being bored.
(c) It keeps you from being bored, and you can double-bill your agent.
(d) You can consider it work and double-bill your agent.

7. What is the best way to quiet KFKD?
(a) Realize it is on, have a writing ritual, and breathe.
(b) Call a friend.
(c) Blast heavy-metal music.
(d) Earplugs.

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

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

10. How do Anne's students often respond when asked why they want to write?
(a) They want money, fame, and fortune.
(b) They are looking for a writing companion.
(c) They want to get published.
(d) They do not want to be silenced anymore.

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

12. What does Anne say that unpublished writers need?
(a) Lots of material on index cards.
(b) To be ripped apart for their awful work.
(c) A good plot treatment.
(d) Attention and honesty.

13. According to Anne, what is publication not going to do for you?
(a) Change your life.
(b) Make writing easier for the next novel.
(c) Assist you in writing a screen play.
(d) Help you get over your jealousy.

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

15. How many people have told Anne they were thankful to know what the wire was on champagne bottles?
(a) Five.
(b) Three.
(c) Hundreds.
(d) One.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Anne state you should explore and understand your childhood?

2. Besides calling around, what is another way to escape the isolation of writing?

3. What does Anne suggest you do when your mind starts to wander again and again?

4. Of Anne's former students, the four that formed a writing group, how many of them had been published?

5. What other writing skill did Anne use to write her letter to Sam?

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