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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Section 4, Publication.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. KFKD plays in stereo. What does Anne say plays out of the left and right speakers?
(a) Right speaker plays how gifted you are, the left how incredible your writing is.
(b) It does not play in stereo at all, everybody knows you are the best writer in the world.
(c) Right speaker plays how awful you are, the left how awul your writing is.
(d) Right speaker plays how gifted your are, the left how awful your writing is.

2. What is publication like for Anne?
(a) A joyous event and all her self-doubt is erased.
(b) Her phone rings off the hook with friends and publishers calling her.
(c) The last few weeks of pregnancy and the first day of seventh-day PE class.
(d) It is really uneventful, no one notices or comments.

3. What do most of Anne's students assume about why well-respected writers's books turn out beautifully?
(a) They analyze each character.
(b) They drink wine.
(c) They have outlined the plot.
(d) They are subject matter experts.

4. What does Anne say that unpublished writers need?
(a) To be ripped apart for their awful work.
(b) A good plot treatment.
(c) Lots of material on index cards.
(d) Attention and honesty.

5. What does Anne state is the most degrading occupational hazard of being a writer?
(a) KFKD.
(b) Paranoia.
(c) Unruly characters.
(d) Jealousy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Ethan Canin's idea of the most valuable thing about writing?

2. According to Anne, your unconscious cannot work when this is going on.

3. According to Anne, what two things can teach you to give of yourself?

4. What is Anne's response to her students question about knowing when they are done?

5. What are great language tools that explain the unknown in terms of the known to the reader?

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