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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Dillard once wrote in a cinder-block cell, what scene did it overlook?
(a) Mountains.
(b) Cape Cod bay.
(c) A tar-and-gravel roof.
(d) A strip mall.

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

3. Oftentimes, what part of Dillard's work must be edited out?
(a) The best-written part.
(b) The typos and misspellings.
(c) The dialogue.
(d) The opening paragraph.

4. What did Wallace Stevens dictate to his secretary?
(a) Editorial essays.
(b) Orders for lunch.
(c) Letters.
(d) Poetry.

5. What had Dillard forgotten all about as she worked on a Fourth-of-July night?
(a) The rest of the world.
(b) Eating dinner.
(c) Her books.
(d) Where she was in her writing.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Dillard's study carrel in the Hollins College library overlook?

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

4. Who once said, "Which is the work in which he hasn't surrendered, under dire difficulty, the best thing he meant to have kept"?

5. Who is the main character in a story told by Ernest Thompson Seton?

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