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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. According to Anne, becoming a writer is about becoming ________.
(a) Truthful.
(b) Famous.
(c) Conscious.
(d) Published.

5. What is Henry James' classic line about a writer looking for his glasses which were atop his head?
(a) "A writer is someone who looses lots."
(b) "A writer always needs to wear his glasses."
(c) "A writer is someone who has lots to loose."
(d) "A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost."

6. KFKD plays in stereo. What does Anne say plays out of the left and right speakers?
(a) It does not play in stereo at all, everybody knows you are the best writer in the world.
(b) Right speaker plays how gifted you are, the left how incredible your writing is.
(c) Right speaker plays how gifted your are, the left how awful your writing is.
(d) Right speaker plays how awful you are, the left how awul your writing is.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the best thing to do when you have a decision to make and do not know what to do?

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

3. Why did Pammy's doctor tell Anne to watch Pammy carefully in her final days?

4. How does Anne write at times when she is stuck?

5. Why does Anne say we are to tell the truth and write in our own voice?

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