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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the image of putting an octopus to bed describe?
(a) Putting the nursing home residents to bed.
(b) Solving problems in a final draft.
(c) Exactly what it says, putting an octopus to bed.
(d) Making all the voices quiet.

2. What are great language tools that explain the unknown in terms of the known to the reader?
(a) Metaphors.
(b) Similes.
(c) A garden and river.
(d) Plots.

3. In working on set design for your book, what does Anne suggest you imagine yourself as?
(a) An operating room nurse, getting utensils ready.
(b) A butterfly flitting around a room.
(c) An architect for a building.
(d) Set designer for a play or movie.

4. When you start think there is one more thing you could do, what should you remind yourself?
(a) Your characters have evolved, time to move on.
(b) The octopus is snoring, time to move on.
(c) Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.
(d) Dr. Suess refuses to eat the broccoli.

5. In Part 1, Section 6, Polaroids, what was Anne's finished article about?
(a) The girl on crutches.
(b) Tragedy transfromed to joy and sheer effort.
(c) The "cool man" game.
(d) The runners.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Anne's first poem about that got any attention?

2. What is Anne's first useful concept about?

3. What does Anne say writers want to happen to a reader as they read about a character?

4. What is a recurring problem that Anne sees in her students?

5. What was Anne writing about when she contacted an expert to help her with the set design?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Anne say perfectionism affects writing?

2. What does Anne suggest can help when you sit down to write dialogue?

3. When Anne's students tell her they do not know where to start, she tells them to start with their childhood. How is this helpful?

4. How did Anne's article on the Special Olympics start off? How did it turn out?

5. When Anne was writing food reviews, how did allowing herself to write bad first drafts help her?

6. How does Anne suggest we can free ourselves from perfectionism?

7. In Part 2, The Writing Frame of Mind, Section 1, Looking Around, what is writing about, and how do we see the writer?

8. How does Anne warn against writing towards a climax or destination?

9. According to Anne, how does knowledge of a character develop?

10. What does a bad first draft provide a writer, according to Anne?

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