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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 determine needs to be at the center of your stories?

2. What are two good reasons cited by Anne for calling around?

3. What did Anne have after a full day of calling around?

4. According to Anne, what is publication not going to do for you?

5. Where did Anne get the idea to use broccoli as her intuition?

Short Essay Questions

1. What additional benefit results from Anne calling around in search for the name of the wire thing topping champagne bottles?

2. What is the main reason Anne's students want to write?

3. Anne states that writers strive to tell the truth. Can truth be told as a one-liner on a bumper sticker?

4. In Part 3, Help Along the Way, Section 1, Index Cards, Anne uses the index cards not only for notes, but in what other way?

5. What does Anne say one's own broccoli can tell them?

6. How can breathing calmly affect you when KFKD is playing?

7. In dealing with our characters, what is moral material, according to Anne?

8. Anne does not agree with the use of the word "block" in "writer's block." How does Anne describe this feeling?

9. Why does writing matter, according to Anne?

10. Does Anne consider calling around work?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

According to Anne, radio station KFKD is the single greatest obstacle to a writer being able to hear their broccoli. Compare and contrast what plays out of the two speakers. Why do you think they are opposing thoughts?

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

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?

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