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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Before she sends copies to her editor or agent, who reads Anne's drafts for her?
(a) Her best friend and a librarian.
(b) Her son and the guy at the copy shop.
(c) Her two best friends.
(d) A student and a librarian.

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

3. Where did Anne get the idea to use broccoli as her intuition?
(a) The fourteenth Dalai Lama.
(b) Samuel Goldwyn.
(c) Mel Brooks.
(d) Dr. Suess.

4. What does Anne state is the most degrading occupational hazard of being a writer?
(a) KFKD.
(b) Paranoia.
(c) Unruly characters.
(d) Jealousy.

5. What other writing skill did Anne use to write her letter to Sam?
(a) School lunches.
(b) Jealousy.
(c) Calling around.
(d) One-inch picture frame.

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

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

8. How does Anne write at times when she is stuck?
(a) She does not write at all, but goes to the beach instead.
(b) As if she was dying tomorrow.
(c) As if she will live forever.
(d) She writes in first person.

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

10. What does Anne state that financial success guarantees a writer?
(a) Adoring fans.
(b) Many book signings.
(c) More paranoia.
(d) A more expensive set of problems.

11. 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.

12. What did Anne use to entertain her son, Sam, while he was in the emergency room?
(a) Finger puppets.
(b) A stethoscope.
(c) Index cards and tongue depressors.
(d) Readings from her favorite book.

13. 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 can hear the voices of your characters, above the rantings of KFKD.
(c) KFKD blares louder than ever.
(d) You fall asleep.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Henry James' classic line about a writer looking for his glasses which were atop his head?

2. What does Anne say that unpublished writers need?

3. What is publication like for Anne?

4. How do Anne's students often respond when asked why they want to write?

5. What joy has Anne found in publication?

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