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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Anne say the single greatest obstacle is to listening to your broccoli?

2. When writing her letter to Sam, who did Anne picture peering over her shoulder?

3. How do Anne's students often respond when asked why they want to write?

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

5. Every writer needs discipline, but what is one way Anne suggests to give yourself a break and still be productive?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is listening to our small inner voice, our intuition, helpful to a writer? Why have some of us lost access to our broccoli? What is a good metaphor to use for your own broccoli?

Essay Topic 2

When you are stuck and cannot think of any other thing to do, but you can not leave your work alone, how does writing a letter help the writer? Who can you write the letter to? What can the letter be about? What does the writing a letter free the writer from?

Essay Topic 3

Why is publication so important so some writers? Do you think these people will ever see writing its own reward? Why or why not?

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