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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 is the best way to quiet KFKD?
(a) Blast heavy-metal music.
(b) Realize it is on, have a writing ritual, and breathe.
(c) Earplugs.
(d) Call a friend.

2. What does Anne say the single greatest obstacle is to listening to your broccoli?
(a) The paranoid voices.
(b) Inconsistency with your characters.
(c) Radio station KFKD.
(d) Radishes, they always overpower everything.

3. What did Anne and her friend Carpenter do for each other on the day they both had books out?
(a) Consoled each other with boxes of chocolates and martinis.
(b) Called each other to say congratulations.
(c) Unknowingly went to the same bookstore for a signing.
(d) Unknowingly sent flowers to each other.

4. When writing her letter to Sam, who did Anne picture peering over her shoulder?
(a) Her editor.
(b) Dr. Suess.
(c) Sam.
(d) Pammy.

5. What is libel?
(a) Defamation by written or printed word.
(b) What you can sue the papers for and get lots of money.
(c) It is the liberty within us all.
(d) Making untrue accusations.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Anne, what can the writing of an informal letter free you from?

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

3. According to Anne, what should our stories encompass?

4. Before she sends copies to her editor or agent, who reads Anne's drafts for her?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What do Annie Dillard and Anne say about giving to your work?

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

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

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

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

8. What is the main reason Anne's students want to write?

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

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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