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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. When you are still, and breathing calmly, what can happen, according to Anne?
(a) You can hear the voices of your characters, above the rantings of KFKD.
(b) KFKD blares louder than ever.
(c) You can write from the perspective of the fourteenth Dalai Lama.
(d) You fall asleep.

2. What is the name of the wire that covers all champagne corks?
(a) Wire hood.
(b) Cork holder.
(c) Wire.
(d) Wire thingy.

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

4. What are good ways to start writing groups?
(a) Ask people on the street and your family members.
(b) Put an ad on a bulletin board and ask people on the street.
(c) Put an ad in the newspaper and ask your family members.
(d) Ask people from class, or put an ad in the newpapers and on bulletin boards.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Anne, becoming a writer is about becoming ________.

2. What did Anne and her friend Carpenter do for each other on the day they both had books out?

3. Where has Anne found some of the best letter writing?

4. Where did Sam's pastor say is the only place we can find peace?

5. What did Annie Dillard say about writing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the two things that put Anne in the spirit to give?

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

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

4. 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?

5. Why does Anne have index cards all over her house?

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

7. In Part 3, Help Along the Way, Section 1, Index Cards, Anne uses the index cards not only for notes, but in what other way?

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

9. How does Anne suggest jealousy can be beneficial for a writer?

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

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