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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 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 a one-inch picture frame.
(b) Writing part of a character's history in the form of a letter.
(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.

2. Besides going to classes and conferences, what is another way to receive feedback from other writers?
(a) Send your work via email to every address you have.
(b) Start a writing group.
(c) Solicit advice from people you meet at bookstores.
(d) Mail other writers your drafts and hope they respond to you.

3. Of Anne's former students, the four that formed a writing group, how many of them had been published?
(a) All of them.
(b) None.
(c) One.
(d) Two.

4. As a writer, what is very hard for Anne to take?
(a) Dialog in dialect.
(b) Criticism.
(c) Suggestions on new characters.
(d) Aspirin.

5. According to Anne, what does being a writer guarantee?
(a) You will become neurotic.
(b) You will get published and receive lots of money.
(c) You will travel and meet many interesting people.
(d) You will spend too much time alone.

Short Answer Questions

1. If we do not have our broccoli to help us write, what guides us?

2. What other writing skill did Anne use to write her letter to Sam?

3. What does Anne use index cards for?

4. What did Jean Rhys write about the success of writers?

5. What are good ways to start writing groups?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Anne state is the myth of publication?

3. 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?

4. Why does Anne encourage her students to write out of vengeance, as long as they do it nicely?

5. What additional benefit results from Anne calling around in search for the name of the wire thing topping champagne bottles?

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

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

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

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

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

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