The Writing Life Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

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The Writing Life Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

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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. In working-class France, what did Dillard say that experienced workers tell an apprentice who gets hurt or tired?
(a) He does not know his limits.
(b) He is adapting himself.
(c) He fits himself to the job.
(d) It is the trade entering his body.

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

3. What does Dillard say that she believes a writer should aim for when writing?
(a) The wood.
(b) The scraps of wood.
(c) The chopping block.
(d) The axe.

4. What did Dillard once describe a moth on a ship as doing?
(a) Being stepped on by someone.
(b) Losing altitude and drowning.
(c) Taking flight like a hummingbird.
(d) Taking off before she could draw it.

5. What did Dillard's study carrel in the Hollins College library overlook?
(a) A river.
(b) A grove of elm trees.
(c) A brick wall.
(d) A tar-and-gravel roof.

Short Answer Questions

1. What written advice was found that Michelangelo had left for his apprentice?

2. What does Dillard's "line of words" do with random pictures in the writer's mind?

3. How does Dillard describe the process of writing a book?

4. In an analogy about a photographer, why did the photographer say he brought the same rejected photograph for judgment every year?

5. When Dillard wrote in Roanoke, Virginia, what did she long for upon coming home after writing?

(see the answer key)

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