Bird by Bird Test | Final Test - Easy

Anne Lamott
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 170 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Bird by Bird Test | Final Test - Easy

Anne Lamott
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 170 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Sharon Olds poem does Anne pass out at every class?
(a) I Write.
(b) Footprints.
(c) I Go Back to May 1937.
(d) The Winds Carried Me.

2. Where did the book Anne wrote about her friend Pammy originate?
(a) Her father's book.
(b) A letter to the San Francisco Giants.
(c) A short assignment about index cards.
(d) Journal entries about Sam as a baby.

3. What does Ms. Allende's writing style offer to the reader?
(a) Sharp turns and suspenseful drama.
(b) Nourishment of the imagination and wonder.
(c) A headache.
(d) A sense of being understood.

4. If we do not have our broccoli to help us write, what guides us?
(a) Our rational mind.
(b) The plot treatment.
(c) The set design.
(d) The one-inch picture frame.

5. What did Jean Rhys write about the success of writers?
(a) Enjoy your success, this is your moment that you have earned.
(b) What is good for one is good for all.
(c) The Gulf Stream is big, get a straw.
(d) Worker bees work, queen bees get the glory.

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

7. What does Anne consider a most depressing experience?
(a) Writer's block.
(b) Editors not liking your work.
(c) Jealousy.
(d) Having so much material you can not write fast enough.

8. What does Anne use index cards for?
(a) Paper airplanes and picking her teeth.
(b) Making lists and picking her teeth.
(c) Taking notes and paper airplanes.
(d) Making lists and taking notes.

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

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

11. 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.

12. How do you get your confidence and intuition back?
(a) By taking a writing class.
(b) By exercising daily.
(c) By calling a friend.
(d) By stopping the chattering of the rational mind.

13. What does Anne suggest you do when your mind starts to wander again and again?
(a) Take another nap.
(b) Blast heavy-metal music again.
(c) Call a friend again.
(d) Gently bring your mind back to your work.

14. According to Anne, becoming a writer is about becoming ________.
(a) Truthful.
(b) Famous.
(c) Published.
(d) Conscious.

15. Why does Anne state you should explore and understand your childhood?
(a) To get rid of past baggage.
(b) To gain the ability to write children's books.
(c) To find good material to write about.
(d) To gain the ability to empathize.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Anne state that financial success guarantees a writer?

2. When you start thinking like a writer, where does Anne suggest you get your material?

3. When you are still, and breathing calmly, what can happen, according to Anne?

4. Where does Anne keep her index cards?

5. What are two good reasons cited by Anne for calling around?

(see the answer keys)

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