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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) It keeps you from being bored, and you can double-bill your agent.
(c) You can consider it work and double-bill your agent.
(d) People enjoy talking about what they know, and it keeps you from being bored.

2. Where has Anne found some of the best letter writing?
(a) Letters from children detailing an event in their childhood.
(b) Letters from people in World War One.
(c) Letters from people wanting to tell their children about their childhoods.
(d) Letters written by people in love.

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

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

5. What constructive way does Anne suggest a writer deal with jealousy?
(a) Write down your feelings then crumple up the paper and throw it away.
(b) Use it as material in a book.
(c) Simply forget about it and move on, because your turn is next.
(d) Tell your therapist about the feelings.

6. Why does Anne state you should explore and understand your childhood?
(a) To find good material to write about.
(b) To gain the ability to write children's books.
(c) To gain the ability to empathize.
(d) To get rid of past baggage.

7. What did Anne's therapist tell her jealousy was?
(a) A secondary emotion from feeling excluded and deprived.
(b) An emotion that can irritate her ulcers.
(c) An emotion that can tear apart friends.
(d) An emotion to be ignored and forgotten.

8. If we do not have our broccoli to help us write, what guides us?
(a) The plot treatment.
(b) The set design.
(c) The one-inch picture frame.
(d) Our rational mind.

9. What does Anne use index cards for?
(a) Taking notes and paper airplanes.
(b) Paper airplanes and picking her teeth.
(c) Making lists and taking notes.
(d) Making lists and picking her teeth.

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

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

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

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

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

15. What is one reason Anne wrote the book for her father?
(a) She was jealous of another writer's book about cancer.
(b) There was only one book about cancer that was funny.
(c) She needed an advance from her agent.
(d) The Dalai Lama himself told her to write it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the way to the truth, your truth, according to Anne?

2. What does Anne say that unpublished writers need?

3. Where does Anne say a moral position begins?

4. What did Anne have after a full day of calling around?

5. What did Anne use to entertain her son, Sam, while he was in the emergency room?

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