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

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

3. How do Anne's students often respond when asked why they want to write?
(a) They want to get published.
(b) They want money, fame, and fortune.
(c) They do not want to be silenced anymore.
(d) They are looking for a writing companion.

4. What does Anne say that unpublished writers need?
(a) Attention and honesty.
(b) To be ripped apart for their awful work.
(c) Lots of material on index cards.
(d) A good plot treatment.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Anne keep her index cards?

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

3. Why does Anne state that writing matters?

4. What is the way to the truth, your truth, according to Anne?

5. KFKD plays in stereo. What does Anne say plays out of the left and right speakers?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. How does Anne say someone reading your material can help you?

4. Why does Anne suggest writing a letter when you have run out of ideas of what to do next?

5. Why does writing matter, according to Anne?

6. Six months before Pammy died, her doctor told Anne to watch her carefully. In dying, how was Pammy teaching Anne how to live? What effect has this had on Anne's writing?

7. What is the main reason Anne's students want to write?

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

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

10. How can breathing calmly affect you when KFKD is playing?

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