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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Anne has written two books and a short story as presents. Who were they for?
(a) The Dalai Lama, her father, and Pammy.
(b) Pammy, her father, and her son.
(c) Her father, Pammy, and Brice.
(d) Her father, Pammy, and Brice's parents.

2. What did Anne's therapist tell her jealousy was?
(a) An emotion to be ignored and forgotten.
(b) An emotion that can irritate her ulcers.
(c) An emotion that can tear apart friends.
(d) A secondary emotion from feeling excluded and deprived.

3. What are two good reasons cited by Anne for calling around?
(a) You can consider it work and double-bill your agent.
(b) People enjoy talking about what they know, and it keeps you from being bored.
(c) People enjoy talking about what they know, and you can consider it.
(d) It keeps you from being bored, and you can double-bill your agent.

4. What kind of feedback do the two people that read Anne's drafts give her?
(a) How to make her story into a blockbuster movie.
(b) How to make her story more interesting and publication ready.
(c) How to make her story less tedious and in funnier dialect.
(d) How to make her story funnier, stronger, more interesting, and less tedious.

5. Why does Anne state that writing matters?
(a) Only to heal the writer.
(b) Because you can affect the heart and spirit of the reader.
(c) Because you can get published.
(d) To heal the writer and get published.

6. Of Anne's former students, the four that formed a writing group, how many of them had been published?
(a) All of them.
(b) Two.
(c) None.
(d) One.

7. How does Anne suggest you should expect someone to review your work?
(a) In a gentle and encouraging way.
(b) With a big red crayon.
(c) In both a gentle and harsh way.
(d) In a harsh and savage way.

8. What is the best thing to do when you have a decision to make and do not know what to do?
(a) Something, anything; making a mistake is better than doing nothing.
(b) Call your mother for advice.
(c) Flip a coin.
(d) Sit in a corner with your arms around your knees, and just start rocking back and forth.

9. A moral position is not a message, but what is it according to Anne?
(a) Wishful thinking.
(b) A passionate caring inside you.
(c) Something to spend a couple of paragraphs on in your book.
(d) Something you need to make sure everyone believes, or you shouldn't associate with them.

10. According to Anne, your unconscious cannot work when this is going on.
(a) When KFKD is on.
(b) When you are jealous.
(c) When you cannot get a particular song out of your head.
(d) When you are breathing down its neck.

11. According to Anne, what should our stories encompass?
(a) The truth as others see it, no one cares what you think.
(b) The truth as we know it, that is all we have to share.
(c) No truth at all, total fiction is riveting.
(d) Half truths, which are much more interesting.

12. When you are still, and breathing calmly, what can happen, according to Anne?
(a) You fall asleep.
(b) KFKD blares louder than ever.
(c) You can write from the perspective of the fourteenth Dalai Lama.
(d) You can hear the voices of your characters, above the rantings of KFKD.

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

14. What is the myth of publication, according to Anne?
(a) All self-doubt is erased and you get a new home.
(b) There is no myth of publication, it really is a joyous event.
(c) It is a joyous event and your phone rings off the hook with kudos from friends.
(d) It is a joyous event and all self-doubt is erased.

15. You brought your work into being, what does Anne say you must give it every day?
(a) Good plot lines and a terrific set.
(b) You do not have to give your work anything on a daily basis.
(c) Time and patience.
(d) Food, health, advice, and love.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do you get your confidence and intuition back?

2. Besides going to classes and conferences, what is another way to receive feedback from other writers?

3. What are good ways to start writing groups?

4. What does Anne suggest feedback from someone close to you yields?

5. When you are stuck in your writing, but you can not leave it alone, what is something Anne suggests to try?

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