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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What joy has Anne found in publication?
(a) The money.
(b) Knowing that more book offers are on the way.
(c) Knowing that she is doing what she loves best.
(d) Realizing that work is over and she can move on now.

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

3. What does Anne say has cosmic importance?
(a) Learning to write good plot treatments.
(b) Learning to squash all feelings of jealousy.
(c) Taking all the classes she has to offer.
(d) Learning to be a giver.

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

5. What are bound galleys?
(a) A paper-bound book with food reviews on it.
(b) A paper-bound book with manuscript set in type.
(c) Where a cook is chained to the kitchen on a ship.
(d) Your manuscript held together by a galley.

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

7. What is the best thing to do when you have a decision to make and do not know what to do?
(a) Flip a coin.
(b) Call your mother for advice.
(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.

8. What soothes and heals Anne when she is paranoid, jealous, or upset for any reason?
(a) Going to the beach.
(b) Writing.
(c) Calling around.
(d) Asprin and a nap.

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

10. What is publication like for Anne?
(a) It is really uneventful, no one notices or comments.
(b) A joyous event and all her self-doubt is erased.
(c) The last few weeks of pregnancy and the first day of seventh-day PE class.
(d) Her phone rings off the hook with friends and publishers calling her.

11. Besides calling around, what is another way to escape the isolation of writing?
(a) Joining a meditation group.
(b) Taking a dancing class.
(c) Employing a good therapist.
(d) Joining a writing class.

12. What does Anne determine needs to be at the center of your stories?
(a) Grape jelly, raspberry has too many seeds.
(b) A beautiful set design.
(c) A good climax.
(d) Something you care passionately about.

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

14. 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) Her father, Pammy, and Brice's parents.
(d) The Dalai Lama, her father, and Pammy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Anne say a moral position begins?

2. You brought your work into being, what does Anne say you must give it every day?

3. Before she sends copies to her editor or agent, who reads Anne's drafts for her?

4. Why does Anne state that writing matters?

5. What does Anne sometimes use her index cards for?

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