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

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

3. Whose drawings and paintings did Dillard believe show his bewilderment and persistence?
(a) Rousseau.
(b) Gaugan.
(c) Picasso.
(d) Giacometti.

4. What made the teakettle in the faculty lounge look so interesting in Chapter 3?
(a) It was only large enough for 8 ounces of liquid.
(b) It had a clothespin jutting from its mouth.
(c) It was in the shape of a cow.
(d) It had a picture of an Aztec on it.

5. Why was Dillard's finger in pain at times as she wrote in the university office in Virginia?
(a) Her fingers cramped up from writing for so long.
(b) She spilled hot water on her fingers once in a while.
(c) She had a clothespin stuck to her finger until the water boiled.
(d) She got paper cuts.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Dillard left her cabin for home in Chapter 5 during a northeaster, how was she feeling, walking down the beach?

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

3. What did Dillard use to crank herself up to write, in the log cabin in Chapter 3?

4. What did Dillard notice most in the Washington cabin she wrote in?

5. What is a writer compared to in Chapter 5?

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