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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4, 5 and 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dillard say that she makes a pen drawing of in Chapter 2?
(a) Snapping turtles.
(b) People pulling into the parking lot.
(c) The scenery outside her study carrel.
(d) Cows on a hilltop.

2. How did a well-known writer respond to a student in Chapter 5 who asked if he could be a writer?
(a) Have you taken my course?
(b) Do you have imagination?
(c) What do you know about the world?
(d) Do you like sentences?

3. When a writer is stuck while writing a book, what does Dillard think he should do?
(a) Nothing but think about it.
(b) Write, no matter what.
(c) Read books that are similar.
(d) Do crosswords to stimulate the brain.

4. Who is the main character in a story told by Ernest Thompson Seton?
(a) An Algonquin woman.
(b) A fisherman.
(c) An Eskimo man.
(d) A Native American woman.

5. What does Dillard say that she thinks an artist supposes a live image to possess?
(a) A secret to be discovered.
(b) Some technique stolen from him.
(c) Something he should pretend to know.
(d) A confused set of lines.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dillard claim as being a good life?

2. In an analogy about a photographer, why did the photographer say he brought the same rejected photograph for judgment every year?

3. What does Dillard say that she feels a writer must do about feeling one's work in progress is either magnificent or abominable?

4. How does Dillard say that she defines the life of the writer in Chapter 3?

5. What does Dillard say she believes poets and novelists like?

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