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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. 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.

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

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

4. Where has Anne found some of the best letter writing?
(a) Letters from people wanting to tell their children about their childhoods.
(b) Letters written by people in love.
(c) Letters from people in World War One.
(d) Letters from children detailing an event in their childhood.

5. What does Anne use index cards for?
(a) Taking notes and paper airplanes.
(b) Paper airplanes and picking her teeth.
(c) Making lists and taking notes.
(d) Making lists and picking her teeth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Anne get the idea to use broccoli as her intuition?

2. What is the best way to quiet KFKD?

3. What soothes and heals Anne when she is paranoid, jealous, or upset for any reason?

4. What does the fourteenth Dalai Lama claim to be his religion?

5. What voice does Anne say is the real and true voice of a writer?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Anne say is a major step is in relying on your own intuition?

2. What does Anne say one's own broccoli can tell them?

3. Why do Anne students sometimes take on the voice of popular writers?

4. Why does writing matter, according to Anne?

5. What do Annie Dillard and Anne say about giving to your work?

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

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

8. Anne states that writers strive to tell the truth. Can truth be told as a one-liner on a bumper sticker?

9. In Part 4, Publication and Other Reasons to Write, Section 1, Writing a Present, Anne describes bowling as life at its most immediate. What did she mean by this?

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

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