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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What sport did Dillard play with a boys' music camp?
(a) Soccer.
(b) Flag Football.
(c) Basketball.
(d) Softball.

4. What does Dillard say many people prefer to the written word?
(a) Life.
(b) Recordings.
(c) Film.
(d) TV.

5. Dillard refers to writing as changing "..from an expression of your notions to an epistemological tool." What does epistemological mean?
(a) Surgical incision of the perineum during childbirth.
(b) Bacterial DNA that is extrachromosomal.
(c) A philosophy concerned with the nature and origin of knowledge.
(d) Greek knowledge.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which insect is discussed in the book as part of an entomological experiment?

2. What did an inchworm search for in a panic in Chapter 1?

3. What did Wallace Stevens dictate to his secretary?

4. When a writer is stuck while writing a book, what does Dillard think he should do?

5. Where does Dillard say she wound up putting her pen drawing in Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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