The Writing Life Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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The Writing Life Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was seen outside the carrel window in Roanoke when Dillard peeked outside the blinds?
(a) The parking lot.
(b) A May beetle.
(c) Daylight.
(d) Fireworks.

2. What is needed in the world more than another excellent manuscript, as far as Dillard is concerned?
(a) Pollen.
(b) Bees.
(c) Honey.
(d) Shoes.

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

4. What does Dillard say that the printed word cannot compete with?
(a) The movies.
(b) Travel.
(c) Music.
(d) People.

5. When Dillard once wrote in a cinder-block cell, what scene did it overlook?
(a) Cape Cod bay.
(b) A strip mall.
(c) Mountains.
(d) A tar-and-gravel roof.

6. Which author would only write poetry when he was '...rather out of health'?
(a) A.E. Housman.
(b) Wallace Stevens.
(c) Osip Mandelstam.
(d) Jack London.

7. Jack London maintained that every writer needs a technique, experience, and what else?
(a) A philosophical position.
(b) A certain personality.
(c) A pen.
(d) An imagination.

8. What do television and films do to the body's senses, according to Dillard?
(a) They make the writer sense the need to write.
(b) Stimulate them.
(c) Make connections.
(d) Numb them.

9. How long did it take William Faulkner to write "As I Lay Dying"?
(a) Six months.
(b) Ten years.
(c) Six years.
(d) Six weeks.

10. Where does Dillard say she wound up putting her pen drawing in Chapter 2?
(a) Between the pages of her novel.
(b) On the wall of the library.
(c) On her kitchen fridge.
(d) Taped to the venetian blinds.

11. In Dillard's thoughts, what words stopped Rebbe Shmelke from hearing his teacher?
(a) "God bless you."
(b) "Amen."
(c) "So be it."
(d) "The Lord spoke."

12. Dillard refers to writing as changing "..from an expression of your notions to an epistemological tool." What does epistemological mean?
(a) Greek knowledge.
(b) Bacterial DNA that is extrachromosomal.
(c) A philosophy concerned with the nature and origin of knowledge.
(d) Surgical incision of the perineum during childbirth.

13. Finish this West African proverb from Chapter 2: "The beginning of wisdom is.."
(a) nature.
(b) to open a book.
(c) to get you a roof.
(d) listening to others.

14. What happened in Bridgeport, Connecticut one morning in April, 1987?
(a) The author sustained a hairline fracture.
(b) A building collapsed.
(c) A writer was killed.
(d) A Rabbi went to prayers.

15. What had Dillard forgotten all about as she worked on a Fourth-of-July night?
(a) Her books.
(b) Eating dinner.
(c) Where she was in her writing.
(d) The rest of the world.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Oftentimes, what part of Dillard's work must be edited out?

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

4. Which religious sect did Dillard read about in the Virginia library?

5. What is the title of the Jack London book mentioned in Chapter 2?

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