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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 Pammy's doctor tell Anne to watch Pammy carefully in her final days?
(a) For Anne to call and report Pammy's progress.
(b) Pammy's doctor did not want her as a patient any more.
(c) For Anne to see that cancer affects the body, but the essence of the person lives.
(d) Pammy was teaching Anne how to live.

2. According to Anne, your unconscious cannot work when this is going on.
(a) When KFKD is on.
(b) When you are jealous.
(c) When you cannot get a particular song out of your head.
(d) When you are breathing down its neck.

3. Where did Sam's pastor say is the only place we can find peace?
(a) In a fortune cookie.
(b) In our hearts.
(c) In publication.
(d) In meditation.

4. What soothes and heals Anne when she is paranoid, jealous, or upset for any reason?
(a) Calling around.
(b) Going to the beach.
(c) Asprin and a nap.
(d) Writing.

5. What does Anne consider a most depressing experience?
(a) Editors not liking your work.
(b) Writer's block.
(c) Having so much material you can not write fast enough.
(d) Jealousy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Anne say we are to tell the truth and write in our own voice?

2. What is publication like for Anne?

3. Why did we lose access to our broccoli?

4. Whose work does Anne love to read when it comes out, but regrets that her students start writing like that author?

5. How does Anne wish she could write all the time?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

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

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