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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. Whose poetry did Dillard usually read aloud when on a break?
(a) Frederick Buechner's.
(b) Walt Whitman's.
(c) Ralph Waldo Emerson's.
(d) Conrad Aiken's.

2. What damage did the Smith-Corona typewriter do in Chapter 4?
(a) The rug got damaged.
(b) The curtains were set on fire.
(c) The writer's shirt was burned.
(d) The table the typewriter was on collapsed.

3. What was Dillard's only physical activity in the one-room log cabin on an empty beach?
(a) Practicing yoga on the beach.
(b) Jogging to her husband's cabin in the evening.
(c) Walking along the beach at low tide.
(d) Walking a few feet from the bed to the desk.

4. Who once said about writing, 'Know your own bone'?
(a) Thoreau.
(b) Whitman.
(c) Ibsen.
(d) Truitt.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dillard have to say about appealing workplaces for writing?

2. How long does the twilight linger on the island on Haro Strait in June and July?

3. What did Dillard do one night in the rare book room of the Virginia library?

4. Who is the Danish aristocrat mentioned in Chapter 2?

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

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