View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Section 6, Writers Block.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Pammy's doctor tell Anne to watch Pammy carefully in her final days?
(a) Pammy was teaching Anne how to live.
(b) For Anne to see that cancer affects the body, but the essence of the person lives.
(c) Pammy's doctor did not want her as a patient any more.
(d) For Anne to call and report Pammy's progress.

2. How else does Anne say you might you know you are done?
(a) Your editor tells you that you are done.
(b) You have done the best you can do, and have no more to give.
(c) Your check arrives in the mail.
(d) The plot has come together beautifully.

3. Secretly, why do some people attend Anne's writing class?
(a) To become her friend.
(b) To learn how to write better.
(c) In hopes she will love their writing and send it to her agent.
(d) To socialize.

4. When Anne showed up at the Special Olympics to write an article, did she know what she was going to write?
(a) No, she was not even very interested.
(b) Yes, she was going to write a food review about the hot dogs there.
(c) Yes, about a girl on crutches.
(d) She had no idea of what the finished article would be.

5. What is Anne's response to her students question about knowing when they are done?
(a) When the octopus is snoring.
(b) When Dr. Suess eats the broccoli.
(c) When characters evolve.
(d) "You just do."

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Anne keep her index cards?

2. What does Anne say that unpublished writers need?

3. What was Vonnegut's comment on writing?

4. What does Anne state is the most degrading occupational hazard of being a writer?

5. What other writing skill did Anne use to write her letter to Sam?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 379 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample