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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who set up Dillard's flight with Rahm?
(a) Ferrar Burn.
(b) Dick Smith.
(c) Paul Glenn.
(d) Jackson Pollock.

2. How did Dillard get into the library in Roanoke late at night?
(a) The door was never locked.
(b) She hid in the women's room when the door was locked.
(c) She had a key.
(d) She climbed in through a window.

3. Who is the Danish aristocrat mentioned in Chapter 2?
(a) Wilhelm Dinesen.
(b) Sverre Magnus.
(c) Osip Mandelstam.
(d) Wallace Stevens.

4. What was the oddest, most exhilarating and exhausting thing about the Rahm air show for Dillard?
(a) He never quit.
(b) The show was too long and boring.
(c) He did not crash.
(d) He came too close to the edge of crashing.

5. What did Rahm's plane create in the air?
(a) Loud noise.
(b) Pictures of clouds.
(c) Words.
(d) Lines and shapes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two problems does Dillard say she feels that a writer must solve when writing a book?

2. Why did Dillard feel that an author must visit her work every day?

3. Who watched Dillard chop wood every morning in Washington?

4. Whose poetry did Dillard usually read aloud when on a break?

5. What, according to Dillard, is the life expectancy of a crop-duster pilot?

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