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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. In working on set design for your book, what does Anne suggest you imagine yourself as?

2. How does plot fall together?

3. According to Anne, what is one thing that can make a book very tiring to read?

4. What advice did E. L. Doctorow have about writing?

5. What movie line does Anne suggest as a good one to tape to the wall of your office?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Anne was writing food reviews, how did allowing herself to write bad first drafts help her?

2. In Part 2, The Writing Frame of Mind, Section 1, Looking Around, what is writing about, and how do we see the writer?

3. How did having a mother and father who read, and a father who was a writer, affect Anne's life?

4. How do you know when you are done, according to Anne?

5. What does a bad first draft provide a writer, according to Anne?

6. What was Natalie Goldberg's response when asked for the best possible writing advice she had to offer? How true is this advice?

7. How does Anne state dialogue affects a reader?

8. How did Anne's article on the Special Olympics start off? How did it turn out?

9. How does Anne suggest writers offer hope to readers?

10. According to Anne, how does knowledge of a character develop?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Section 4, Part 3, Giving, Anne compares giving to your work to giving to a three-year-old. How is giving to a three-year-old an effective metaphor for giving to your work? Do you agree or disagree that giving to your work is like giving to a three-year-old? Why or why not? If you disagree, what is good metaphor for how you give to your work?

Essay Topic 2

Jealousy is considered the most difficult voice on KFKD to overcome. Anne is extremely jealous of a writer friend. Anne's therapist tells her that jealousy is a secondary emotion stemming from feeling excluded and deprived, and, if she works on these two emotions, she could break through the jealousy. How do you see Anne being excluded or deprived in her childhood? Do you agree with Anne's therapist's diagnosis? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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