The Writing Life Test | Final Test - Easy

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The Writing Life Test | Final Test - Easy

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 133 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What body of water did Dillard write near in Washington State?
(a) Puget Sound.
(b) The Columbia River.
(c) Port of Vancouver.
(d) Strait of Georgia.

2. As put by Dillard, what is the vision in a writer's or painter's work?
(a) A piece of paper.
(b) A series of formal possibilities.
(c) The time and materials needed.
(d) The end result of the work.

3. In Dillard's experience, what always wins over the vision being forgotten?
(a) The page.
(b) The work's intellectual structure.
(c) The set of mental relationships.
(d) An imaginary object.

4. What two problems does Dillard say she feels that a writer must solve when writing a book?
(a) Can I write each sentence? and, Can I string them together?
(b) Where is my plot? and, How do I end this?
(c) Can it be done? and, Can I do it?
(d) Can I keep track of characters? and, What do I name them?

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

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

7. Thornton Wilder cited an unnamed writer of sonnets as saying only one line drops from where?
(a) The ceiling.
(b) A hammer.
(c) A chicken.
(d) A whisper in the ear.

8. What is the topic of an essay written by Dillard that she said she considers too obscure and too intellectual?
(a) A moth.
(b) A mustang.
(c) Popcorn.
(d) Lions.

9. Dillard repeated the phrase, 'It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay' over and over like a song in Chapter 5. What poem is this line from?
(a) Poem Written at Morning.
(b) The Well Dressed Man with a Beard.
(c) Sunday Morning.
(d) Valley Candle.

10. What did Dillard do when she was upstairs in a house and she felt a tremor under her feet in Chapter 4?
(a) She called the emergency phone number.
(b) She collected her writing to keep it from being damaged.
(c) She went downstairs in case the stairway collapsed.
(d) Nothing; she was used to earthquakes.

11. At the island on Haro Strait, why would a man overboard die within ten minutes?
(a) The channel made the water unswimmable.
(b) The whales were numerous.
(c) The water was very cold.
(d) There were sharks.

12. What did Dillard notice most in the Washington cabin she wrote in?
(a) The beauty.
(b) The view.
(c) The quiet.
(d) The cold.

13. Why did Dillard feel that an author must visit her work every day?
(a) To reassert mastery over it.
(b) To hope it will get better.
(c) To feel sympathy for it.
(d) To be brave about it.

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

15. What question did Dillard ask Glenn that he answered with the story of Ferrar?
(a) What the weather was like now.
(b) How far it was to Fishery Point.
(c) How his work was going.
(d) How the waters were.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote, 'He goes because he must, as Galahad went towards the Grail; knowing that for those who can live it, this alone is life'?

2. What does Dillard say that she remembers seeing on the island at Haro Strait that made her weep on the shore in fear?

3. How does Dillard say that she defines the life of the writer in Chapter 3?

4. What damage did the Smith-Corona typewriter do in Chapter 4?

5. Whose drawings and paintings did Dillard believe show his bewilderment and persistence?

(see the answer keys)

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