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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What advice does Anne's hypnotist give her about the negative voices?
2. What do most of Anne's students assume about why well-respected writers's books turn out beautifully?
3. In the beginning of Part 2, what does Anne say writing is about?
4. What is a plot treatment?
5. What does Anne's friend tell her that we and our characters have to work within?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Part 2, The Writing Frame of Mind, Section 1, Looking Around, what is writing about, and how do we see the writer?
2. According to Anne, how are we able to see the underlying essence of a person?
3. With every work there will always be more that you could have done. What does Anne warn us against with this thought?
4. How does Anne state dialogue affects a reader?
5. Another of Anne's stories stems from the movie Stripes. The line is "Hey, lighten up Francis." How is this story helpful to her students?
6. In Part 1, Section 12, Plot Treatment, Anne had been working on a book for over two years that still was not acceptable to her editor. How does she describe the plot treatment she wrote, which was accepted by her editor, and gained her the last of her advance?
7. How does Anne suggest we can free ourselves from perfectionism?
8. How did Anne accomplish a very believable gardener in her novel, when she cannot even keep a houseplant alive?
9. Where does Anne find out something about false starts?
10. Plot is the main part of your story. How does the plot best grow organically, according to Anne?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the moral point of view? Why should you put yourself at the center of your writing? Why should the truth be unfolded layer after layer, instead of like a one-liner on a bumper sticker?
Essay Topic 2
On the first day of class, Anne tells her students that good writing is about telling the truth. What kind of attitude do the students have the first few days? How does their attitude change in the following days? Why does their attitude change?
Essay Topic 3
In Part 2, The Writing Frame of Mind, Section 1, Looking Around, Anne says that writing is about "learning to pay attention and communicate what is going on."
Part 1) Anne's father taught the prisoners of San Quentin to pay attention and write down their thoughts. At this time Anne was a young child, and thought it easier for her to write down what was going on. Why was it easier for her?
Part 2) How is the writer like the cheese in "The Farmer in the Dell?"
Part 3) As a writer, how should we look at the people around us in order to honestly recognize who they are?
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