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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 did Anne have after a full day of calling around?
(a) A description of vineyards.
(b) Nothing, no one had any material for her that was useful.
(c) A description of how to train grapevines.
(d) A description of chardonnay wine.

2. What kind of feedback do the two people that read Anne's drafts give her?
(a) How to make her story into a blockbuster movie.
(b) How to make her story funnier, stronger, more interesting, and less tedious.
(c) How to make her story more interesting and publication ready.
(d) How to make her story less tedious and in funnier dialect.

3. What soothes and heals Anne when she is paranoid, jealous, or upset for any reason?
(a) Writing.
(b) Asprin and a nap.
(c) Going to the beach.
(d) Calling around.

4. Why did we lose access to our broccoli?
(a) Grown-ups corrected, ridiculed, or punished us for our words.
(b) We got lazy.
(c) Dr. Suess took it away.
(d) Writer's block.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are two good reasons cited by Anne for calling around?

2. Before she sends copies to her editor or agent, who reads Anne's drafts for her?

3. Whose work does Anne love to read when it comes out, but regrets that her students start writing like that author?

4. What are bound galleys?

5. According to Anne, what is publication not going to do for you?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does writing matter, according to Anne?

2. How should a reviewer respond to your material, according to Anne?

3. Good things happen to bad writers, mainly, anyone who is not you. Why does this happen according to Anne?

4. What additional benefit results from Anne calling around in search for the name of the wire thing topping champagne bottles?

5. In Part 4, Section 4, Publication, Anne is humbled by two events. What were they?

6. Does Anne consider calling around work?

7. According to Anne, how can having a writing group affect you and your work as a writer?

8. What two books did Anne write as gifts and why?

9. What are some reasons that students attend Anne's writing classes?

10. What does Anne state is the myth of publication?

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