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

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

3. Anne does not agree with the word "block," which suggests something is constipated or stuck. How does she describe 'writer's block'?
(a) As having the rug pulled out from under you.
(b) As being empty.
(c) As being nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.
(d) As being as jealous as the green-eyed monster.

4. According to Anne, what two things can teach you to give of yourself?
(a) A three-year-old and characters.
(b) Your work in progess and your three-year-old.
(c) Characters and short assignments.
(d) A credit card bill and a gas guzzling automobile.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the myth of publication, according to Anne?

2. What is the way to the truth, your truth, according to Anne?

3. What joy has Anne found in publication?

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

5. What Sharon Olds poem does Anne pass out at every class?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Anne state is the myth of publication?

2. Why does Anne have index cards all over her house?

3. Why does writing matter, according to Anne?

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

5. What two books did Anne write as gifts and why?

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

7. Six months before Pammy died, her doctor told Anne to watch her carefully. In dying, how was Pammy teaching Anne how to live? What effect has this had on Anne's writing?

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

9. In Part 4, Publication and Other Reasons to Write, Section 1, Writing a Present, Anne describes bowling as life at its most immediate. What did she mean by this?

10. What is the main reason Anne's students want to write?

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