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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) Having so much material you can not write fast enough.
(b) Jealousy.
(c) Writer's block.
(d) Editors not liking your work.

2. What did Jean Rhys write about the success of writers?
(a) The Gulf Stream is big, get a straw.
(b) Enjoy your success, this is your moment that you have earned.
(c) What is good for one is good for all.
(d) Worker bees work, queen bees get the glory.

3. What does Anne believe drives a writer's work?
(a) Deadlines.
(b) Publishers.
(c) The climax.
(d) The writer believing in the position taken by the characters.

4. From what assignment did Anne end up writing a letter to her son?
(a) Essay about baseball.
(b) Essay about being a life-long Giants fan.
(c) Essay about San Francisco.
(d) There was no assignment, she just wanted to write a letter to her son.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Every writer needs discipline, but what is one way Anne suggests to give yourself a break and still be productive?

2. What does Anne suggest feedback from someone close to you yields?

3. According to Anne, when did we hear and listen to our intuition?

4. What brings Anne's students the feeling of liberation?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why does writing matter, according to Anne?

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

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

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

10. 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?

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