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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Anne sometimes use her index cards for?
(a) Thought provoking party favors.
(b) Nothing, she throws them all away.
(c) Set design.
(d) Short assignments, to get writing again.

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

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

4. What does Anne suggest students do when faced with "writer's block?"
(a) Accept that they are challenged writers who should take her class again later.
(b) Accept that they are not in a creative period right now, in doing so you free yourself to fill up again.
(c) Write about school breakfasts to get the creativeness flowing.
(d) Breathe calmly and meditate.

5. Where has Anne found some of the best letter writing?
(a) Letters from children detailing an event in their childhood.
(b) Letters from people wanting to tell their children about their childhoods.
(c) Letters written by people in love.
(d) Letters from people in World War One.

6. What joy has Anne found in publication?
(a) Realizing that work is over and she can move on now.
(b) Knowing that more book offers are on the way.
(c) Knowing that she is doing what she loves best.
(d) The money.

7. What is the name of the wire that covers all champagne corks?
(a) Wire hood.
(b) Wire thingy.
(c) Wire.
(d) Cork holder.

8. What is Henry James' classic line about a writer looking for his glasses which were atop his head?
(a) "A writer is someone who looses lots."
(b) "A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost."
(c) "A writer always needs to wear his glasses."
(d) "A writer is someone who has lots to loose."

9. What ultimately helped Anne overcome her jealousy?
(a) Meditation.
(b) Feeling it and then writing about it.
(c) Going to visit family.
(d) Talking to a friend.

10. What other writing skill did Anne use to write her letter to Sam?
(a) Jealousy.
(b) One-inch picture frame.
(c) School lunches.
(d) Calling around.

11. Where did Sam's pastor say is the only place we can find peace?
(a) In publication.
(b) In meditation.
(c) In our hearts.
(d) In a fortune cookie.

12. What does Anne state that financial success guarantees a writer?
(a) A more expensive set of problems.
(b) Adoring fans.
(c) Many book signings.
(d) More paranoia.

13. What does Anne suggest feedback from someone close to you yields?
(a) Confidence and time to improve the work.
(b) Mindless suggestions and a loss of friends.
(c) Better plots and newer characters.
(d) A headache and ulcer.

14. When you are stuck in your writing, but you can not leave it alone, what is something Anne suggests to try?
(a) Writing part of a character's history in a one-inch picture frame.
(b) Write the same word over and over, noticing every letter and the sound it makes.
(c) Writing part of a character's history in the form of a letter.
(d) Go ahead and take a break, make a phone call.

15. According to Anne, what can the writing of an informal letter free you from?
(a) Jealousy.
(b) Paranoia.
(c) Perfectionism.
(d) Plot treatments.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Anne say has cosmic importance?

2. Where did the book Anne wrote about her friend Pammy originate?

3. How does Anne suggest you should expect someone to review your work?

4. According to Anne, when did we hear and listen to our intuition?

5. What kind of feedback do the two people that read Anne's drafts give her?

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