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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When you start thinking like a writer, where does Anne suggest you get your material?
(a) Everywhere, everything can be used as material.
(b) During meditation.
(c) At the supermarket.
(d) When you walk your dog.

2. What is the best thing to do when you have a decision to make and do not know what to do?
(a) Call your mother for advice.
(b) Flip a coin.
(c) Something, anything; making a mistake is better than doing nothing.
(d) Sit in a corner with your arms around your knees, and just start rocking back and forth.

3. According to Anne, your unconscious cannot work when this is going on.
(a) When you are jealous.
(b) When KFKD is on.
(c) When you cannot get a particular song out of your head.
(d) When you are breathing down its neck.

4. What is libel?
(a) Making untrue accusations.
(b) What you can sue the papers for and get lots of money.
(c) Defamation by written or printed word.
(d) It is the liberty within us all.

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

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

7. 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 empty.
(b) As being nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.
(c) As being as jealous as the green-eyed monster.
(d) As having the rug pulled out from under you.

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

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

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

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

12. Anne has written two books and a short story as presents. Who were they for?
(a) Pammy, her father, and her son.
(b) Her father, Pammy, and Brice.
(c) The Dalai Lama, her father, and Pammy.
(d) Her father, Pammy, and Brice's parents.

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

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

15. According to Anne, what should our stories encompass?
(a) Half truths, which are much more interesting.
(b) No truth at all, total fiction is riveting.
(c) The truth as others see it, no one cares what you think.
(d) The truth as we know it, that is all we have to share.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do you get your confidence and intuition back?

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

3. What kind of feedback do the two people that read Anne's drafts give her?

4. What are good ways to start writing groups?

5. Where did the book Anne wrote about her friend Pammy originate?

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