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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What are two good reasons cited by Anne for calling around?
(a) People enjoy talking about what they know, and it keeps you from being bored.
(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 you can consider it.

3. According to Anne, what two things can teach you to give of yourself?
(a) A credit card bill and a gas guzzling automobile.
(b) A three-year-old and characters.
(c) Characters and short assignments.
(d) Your work in progess and your three-year-old.

4. When you are stuck in your writing, but you can not leave it alone, what is something Anne suggests to try?
(a) Writing part of a character's history in a one-inch picture frame.
(b) Go ahead and take a break, make a phone call.
(c) Write the same word over and over, noticing every letter and the sound it makes.
(d) Writing part of a character's history in the form of a letter.

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

6. Anne does not agree with the word "block," which suggests something is constipated or stuck. How does she describe 'writer's block'?
(a) As having the rug pulled out from under you.
(b) As being nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.
(c) As being empty.
(d) As being as jealous as the green-eyed monster.

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

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

9. Where did Sam's pastor say is the only place we can find peace?
(a) In meditation.
(b) In our hearts.
(c) In a fortune cookie.
(d) In publication.

10. What Sharon Olds poem does Anne pass out at every class?
(a) Footprints.
(b) I Write.
(c) I Go Back to May 1937.
(d) The Winds Carried Me.

11. What does Anne say the single greatest obstacle is to listening to your broccoli?
(a) The paranoid voices.
(b) Radishes, they always overpower everything.
(c) Radio station KFKD.
(d) Inconsistency with your characters.

12. What does Anne suggest students do when faced with "writer's block?"
(a) Breathe calmly and meditate.
(b) Accept that they are challenged writers who should take her class again later.
(c) Accept that they are not in a creative period right now, in doing so you free yourself to fill up again.
(d) Write about school breakfasts to get the creativeness flowing.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Anne, when did we hear and listen to our intuition?

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

3. Why does Anne state that writing matters?

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

5. What does Anne suggest feedback from someone close to you yields?

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