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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 Sharon Olds poem does Anne pass out at every class?

2. If we do not have our broccoli to help us write, what guides us?

3. What did Jean Rhys write about the success of writers?

4. What does Anne consider a gift if you have it?

5. What is Henry James' classic line about a writer looking for his glasses which were atop his head?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do Anne students sometimes take on the voice of popular writers?

2. In Part 4, Section 4, Publication, Anne is humbled by two events. What were they?

3. How does Anne suggest jealousy can be beneficial for a writer?

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

5. What has Anne found to be the best ways of dealing with station KFKD?

6. What are some reasons that students attend Anne's writing classes?

7. What does Anne say is a major step is in relying on your own intuition?

8. How did Anne's article about being a lifelong Giants fan originate?

9. What does Anne state is the myth of publication?

10. How should a reviewer respond to your material, according to Anne?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is listening to our small inner voice, our intuition, helpful to a writer? Why have some of us lost access to our broccoli? What is a good metaphor to use for your own broccoli?

Essay Topic 2

When you are stuck and cannot think of any other thing to do, but you can not leave your work alone, how does writing a letter help the writer? Who can you write the letter to? What can the letter be about? What does the writing a letter free the writer from?

Essay Topic 3

Aside from getting published, what are reasons to write? What are some things that reading books helps us understand?

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