The Writing Life Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

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The Writing Life Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the life of a Danish aristocrat mentioned in Chapter 2, what did he do for most of the day?
(a) Hunted.
(b) Swam.
(c) Napped.
(d) Ate.

2. According to Dillard, how do painters work as opposed to writers?
(a) Painters work with color, writers with black and white.
(b) Painters work with their hands, writers with their heads.
(c) Painters work on a blank canvas, writers on a computer.
(d) Painters work from the ground up, writers from left to right.

3. What did an inchworm search for in a panic in Chapter 1?
(a) Its front legs.
(b) The next part of a blade of grass it was climbing.
(c) A way in which to lift its hind legs to its front legs.
(d) A caterpillar.

4. With what type of aid did Dillard once work in order to keep a project organized?
(a) A paper sorter.
(b) A twenty-foot conference table.
(c) Two computers going at once.
(d) A fax machine.

5. What, according to Dillard, is the first thing a writer does that is similar to what a painter does?
(a) Brings the vision of the work to light.
(b) Ignores the first faint marks on the canvas or page.
(c) Shapes the vision of the work.
(d) Shapes a vision of the world.

Short Answer Questions

1. Under what circumstances did Rabbi Uri of Strelisk tell his family to dispose of his manuscripts?

2. Which author would only write poetry when he was '...rather out of health'?

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

4. What did Wallace Stevens dictate to his secretary?

5. What was the result of Dillard's first attempts at splitting wood in Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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