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

2. What did Anne use to entertain her son, Sam, while he was in the emergency room?
(a) Readings from her favorite book.
(b) A stethoscope.
(c) Finger puppets.
(d) Index cards and tongue depressors.

3. How does Anne wish she could write all the time?
(a) Truthfully and soulfully.
(b) Carefully and soulfully.
(c) Fastly and accurately.
(d) Passionately and accurately.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Pammy's doctor tell Anne to watch Pammy carefully in her final days?

2. KFKD plays in stereo. What does Anne say plays out of the left and right speakers?

3. Where did Sam's pastor say is the only place we can find peace?

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

5. What does Anne suggest students do when faced with "writer's block?"

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does writing matter, according to Anne?

2. Why do Anne students sometimes take on the voice of popular writers?

3. Anne does not agree with the use of the word "block" in "writer's block." How does Anne describe this feeling?

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

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

6. In dealing with our characters, what is moral material, according to Anne?

7. How should a reviewer respond to your material, according to Anne?

8. What do Annie Dillard and Anne say about giving to your work?

9. How did Anne's article about being a lifelong Giants fan originate?

10. What are the two things that put Anne in the spirit to give?

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