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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dillard compare writing to in the first paragraph of the book?
(a) A path to pick through.
(b) Laying out a line of words.
(c) A dead end.
(d) An ordeal to be probed.

2. Who did Dillard see standing at the chess table in the Roanoke library one night?
(a) Her phantom opponent.
(b) The librarian's wife.
(c) The head librarian.
(d) A baby in a diaper.

3. Under what circumstances did Rabbi Uri of Strelisk tell his family to dispose of his manuscripts?
(a) If praying should kill him.
(b) If writing became the death of him.
(c) If he should die on his way to prayers.
(d) If there was a risk of fire.

4. What do experienced writers urge young men and women to learn, according to Chapter 1?
(a) Shakesperian plays.
(b) Word definitions.
(c) A useful trade.
(d) How to spell.

5. Where does the "line of words" go at the end of Chapter 1?
(a) To the sun.
(b) To Venus.
(c) To Houston, Texas.
(d) Out past Jupiter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sport did Dillard play with a boys' music camp?

2. Who claimed to have written for twenty hours a day?

3. Who said a long poem takes between five and ten years to write?

4. In Dillard's thoughts, what words stopped Rebbe Shmelke from hearing his teacher?

5. Who is the Danish aristocrat mentioned in Chapter 2?

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