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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. How did Anne feel after the basketball game?
2. Aside from talking to people, what are other ways to gather ideas for set design?
3. What does the one-inch picture frame remind her of?
4. What does Anne warn about doing with your characters?
5. How does Anne define clutter?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Anne suggest doing with the feeling of paranoia?
2. 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?
3. How does Anne suggest writing about school lunches be beneficial for a writer?
4. How did having a mother and father who read, and a father who was a writer, affect Anne's life?
5. At some point you may need to design a set for your characters that you know nothing about. What avenues does Anne suggest taking to gain the knowledge you need?
6. What does Anne suggest can help when you sit down to write dialogue?
7. Where does Anne find out something about false starts?
8. How did Anne accomplish a very believable gardener in her novel, when she cannot even keep a houseplant alive?
9. According to Anne, how are we able to see the underlying essence of a person?
10. Alice Adams suggests the ABDCE formula for writing a short story. How can formulas be a great way to get us started?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Anne titles Part 3, "Help Along the Way." This section is filled with helpful ideas to get a writer writing. How can you apply these ideas to your daily life, even if you are not a writer?
Essay Topic 2
Compare and contrast finding a writing partner to forming a reading group, and discuss the effectiveness of both.
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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