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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. Why did we lose access to our broccoli?
(a) Writer's block.
(b) Grown-ups corrected, ridiculed, or punished us for our words.
(c) Dr. Suess took it away.
(d) We got lazy.

2. Whose work does Anne love to read when it comes out, but regrets that her students start writing like that author?
(a) Isabel Allende.
(b) Dr. Suess.
(c) Arthur C. Clarke.
(d) Gore Vidal.

3. How do you get your confidence and intuition back?
(a) By exercising daily.
(b) By calling a friend.
(c) By stopping the chattering of the rational mind.
(d) By taking a writing class.

4. What does Anne say has cosmic importance?
(a) Learning to squash all feelings of jealousy.
(b) Learning to write good plot treatments.
(c) Learning to be a giver.
(d) Taking all the classes she has to offer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Anne consider a gift if you have it?

2. What does Anne say the single greatest obstacle is to listening to your broccoli?

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

4. According to Anne, what is publication not going to do for you?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does writing matter, according to Anne?

3. How did Anne's article about being a lifelong Giants fan originate?

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

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

7. Does Anne consider calling around work?

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

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

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

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