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

2. What is the way to the truth, your truth, according to Anne?
(a) Endure time alone with your thoguhts.
(b) Writing as someone else would.
(c) Meditation and expensive therapy.
(d) To go through your anger, damage, and grief.

3. How many people have told Anne they were thankful to know what the wire was on champagne bottles?
(a) Hundreds.
(b) Five.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

4. A moral position is not a message, but what is it according to Anne?
(a) A passionate caring inside you.
(b) Wishful thinking.
(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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Anne, what does being a writer guarantee?

2. In Anne's comments on the Gulf Stream, what is the straw a metaphor for?

3. According to Anne, what can the writing of an informal letter free you from?

4. What does the fourteenth Dalai Lama claim to be his religion?

5. As a writer, what is very hard for Anne to take?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. In Part 4, Section 4, Publication, Anne is humbled by two events. What were they?

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

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