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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one reason Anne wrote the book for her father?
(a) There was only one book about cancer that was funny.
(b) She needed an advance from her agent.
(c) The Dalai Lama himself told her to write it.
(d) She was jealous of another writer's book about cancer.

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

3. What does Anne consider a gift if you have it?
(a) Sophisticated innocence.
(b) Ability to speak another language.
(c) Patience with a three-year-old.
(d) A connection with the Dalai Lama.

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 What does Anne say that unpublished writers need?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

5. How does Anne write at times when she is stuck?
(a) As if she will live forever.
(b) She writes in first person.
(c) She does not write at all, but goes to the beach instead.
(d) As if she was dying tomorrow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ms. Allende's writing style offer to the reader?

2. What are good ways to start writing groups?

3. What is Henry James' classic line about a writer looking for his glasses which were atop his head?

4. What constructive way does Anne suggest a writer deal with jealousy?

5. What does Anne use index cards for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Anne say is a major step is in relying on your own intuition?

2. How can breathing calmly affect you when KFKD is playing?

3. Anne states that writers strive to tell the truth. Can truth be told as a one-liner on a bumper sticker?

4. Why does Anne suggest writing a letter when you have run out of ideas of what to do next?

5. Good things happen to bad writers, mainly, anyone who is not you. Why does this happen according to Anne?

6. How does Anne say someone reading your material can help you?

7. What are some reasons that students attend Anne's writing classes?

8. What does Anne say one's own broccoli can tell them?

9. In Part 3, Help Along the Way, Section 1, Index Cards, Anne uses the index cards not only for notes, but in what other way?

10. Why does writing matter, according to Anne?

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