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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does the fourteenth Dalai Lama claim to be his religion?
(a) Good ethics.
(b) Kindness.
(c) Buddhism.
(d) Moral position.

5. What brings Anne's students the feeling of liberation?
(a) A deep breath.
(b) Writing about their childhood.
(c) Writing about people who wronged them.
(d) Discipline in writing.

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

7. What does Anne consider a most depressing experience?
(a) Jealousy.
(b) Having so much material you can not write fast enough.
(c) Editors not liking your work.
(d) Writer's block.

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

9. Where does Anne keep her index cards?
(a) Everywhere.
(b) In a nice stack on her desk.
(c) In her pocket and in her car.
(d) In her purse.

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

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

12. What ultimately helped Anne overcome her jealousy?
(a) Going to visit family.
(b) Feeling it and then writing about it.
(c) Talking to a friend.
(d) Meditation.

13. According to Anne, when did we hear and listen to our intuition?
(a) As children.
(b) As adults.
(c) As teenagers.
(d) At age 20.

14. What voice does Anne say is the real and true voice of a writer?
(a) Another writer's voice.
(b) The voice playing on KFKD.
(c) The broccoli voice.
(d) Their own voice.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Anne wish she could write all the time?

2. When you are still, and breathing calmly, what can happen, according to Anne?

3. What does Anne say that unpublished writers need?

4. What did Anne's therapist tell her jealousy was?

5. What is the best way to quiet KFKD?

(see the answer keys)

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