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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who said a long poem takes between five and ten years to write?
(a) John Berryman.
(b) Maya Angelou.
(c) Walt Whitman.
(d) Emily Dickinson.

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

3. What does Dillard's "line of words" do with random pictures in the writer's mind?
(a) Dissects them out.
(b) Dismisses them.
(c) Writes them down, word for word.
(d) Dreams of them.

4. In an analogy about a photographer, why did the photographer say he brought the same rejected photograph for judgment every year?
(a) "...I just know it is my best shot."
(b) "...I only used that camera this one time."
(c) "...I had to climb a mountain to get it."
(d) "...I never throw anything away."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Dillard, what kind of life is a life of sensation?

2. What book was Dillard working on in Roanoke, Virginia?

3. As explained by Dillard in Chapter 1, what must be done to a piece of writing after the first draft is finished?

4. Who did Dillard see standing at the chess table in the Roanoke library one night?

5. How long did it take William Faulkner to write "As I Lay Dying"?

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