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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 are two good reasons cited by Anne for calling around?
2. What are bound galleys?
3. Whose work does Anne love to read when it comes out, but regrets that her students start writing like that author?
4. What constructive way does Anne suggest a writer deal with jealousy?
5. Every writer needs discipline, but what is one way Anne suggests to give yourself a break and still be productive?
Short Essay Questions
1. Does Anne consider calling around work?
2. In Part 4, Section 4, Publication, Anne is humbled by two events. What were they?
3. What does Anne state is the myth of publication?
4. What two books did Anne write as gifts and why?
5. Six months before Pammy died, her doctor told Anne to watch her carefully. In dying, how was Pammy teaching Anne how to live? What effect has this had on Anne's writing?
6. What is the main reason Anne's students want to write?
7. What does Anne say one's own broccoli can tell them?
8. What additional benefit results from Anne calling around in search for the name of the wire thing topping champagne bottles?
9. How does Anne say someone reading your material can help you?
10. What do Annie Dillard and Anne say about giving to your work?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why is publication so important so some writers? Do you think these people will ever see writing its own reward? Why or why not?
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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