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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 determine needs to be at the center of your stories?
(a) A good climax.
(b) A beautiful set design.
(c) Something you care passionately about.
(d) Grape jelly, raspberry has too many seeds.

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

3. Anne has written two books and a short story as presents. Who were they for?
(a) Her father, Pammy, and Brice.
(b) Her father, Pammy, and Brice's parents.
(c) The Dalai Lama, her father, and Pammy.
(d) Pammy, her father, and her son.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Anne have after a full day of calling around?

2. According to Anne, what two things can teach you to give of yourself?

3. How do you get your confidence and intuition back?

4. Why does Anne state you should explore and understand your childhood?

5. Where did the book Anne wrote about her friend Pammy originate?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. In dealing with our characters, what is moral material, according to Anne?

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

7. Anne does not agree with the use of the word "block" in "writer's block." How does Anne describe this feeling?

8. Does Anne consider calling around work?

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

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

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