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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 did Anne have after a full day of calling around?
(a) A description of how to train grapevines.
(b) A description of chardonnay wine.
(c) Nothing, no one had any material for her that was useful.
(d) A description of vineyards.

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

3. Anne does not agree with the word "block," which suggests something is constipated or stuck. How does she describe 'writer's block'?
(a) As having the rug pulled out from under you.
(b) As being nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.
(c) As being as jealous as the green-eyed monster.
(d) As being empty.

4. What is one reason Anne wrote the book for her father?
(a) She needed an advance from her agent.
(b) She was jealous of another writer's book about cancer.
(c) There was only one book about cancer that was funny.
(d) The Dalai Lama himself told her to write it.

5. What does Anne state is the most degrading occupational hazard of being a writer?
(a) Unruly characters.
(b) Paranoia.
(c) KFKD.
(d) Jealousy.

Short Answer Questions

1. You brought your work into being, what does Anne say you must give it every day?

2. What does the fourteenth Dalai Lama claim to be his religion?

3. When you are still, and breathing calmly, what can happen, according to Anne?

4. According to Anne, your unconscious cannot work when this is going on.

5. According to Anne, becoming a writer is about becoming ________.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Anne have index cards all over her house?

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

4. What are some reasons that students attend Anne's writing classes?

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

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

7. How should a reviewer respond to your material, according to Anne?

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

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

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

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