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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 does Anne say writers want to happen to a reader as they read about a character?

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

3. What does Anne tell her students the reason to write is?

4. What is a plot treatment?

5. Anne tells her students they can use paranoia as wonderful material, and then recites a poem. Who is the author of the poem?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Anne suggest writing about school lunches be beneficial for a writer?

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 the one-inch picture frame on Anne's desk put her in the mind to write a short assignment?

4. With every work there will always be more that you could have done. What does Anne warn us against with this thought?

5. What does Anne suggest can help when you sit down to write dialogue?

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

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

8. According to Anne, how are we able to see the underlying essence of a person?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

In Part 4, Publication and Other Reasons to Write, Section 1, Writing a Present, Toni Morrison is quoted as saying, "The function of freedom is to free someone else." How can writing free another person, such as the reader? In what ways does writing affect the writer?

Essay Topic 3

Why is publication so important so some writers? Do you think these people will ever see writing its own reward? Why or why not?

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