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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is a writer compared to in Chapter 5?
2. What damage did the Smith-Corona typewriter do in Chapter 4?
3. What question did Dillard ask Glenn that he answered with the story of Ferrar?
4. Whose poetry did Dillard usually read aloud when on a break?
5. What did Frederick Buechner note about an author realizing that he is actually writing?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did writers such as Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Ralph Ellison, and Eudora Welty have in common when learning to write, according to Dillard?
2. What does Dillard mean in Chapter 5 when she writes, '...instead we watch television and miss the show'?
3. Why does Dillard say that the life of the mind of a writer is hard to be called "living"?
4. Why does Dillard say it makes more sense to write one big book than to write many stories or essays?
5. Why was a moth trying to gain altitude and ultimately drowning, in Chapter 3?
6. How does Dillard compare a writer to a Seminole alligator wrestler?
7. How does a work in progress turn on its author, according to Dillard?
8. What does Dillard mean in Chapter 5 by 'Probe and search each object in a piece of art'?
9. What did Dillard learn from the local ferryman?
10. When Dillard mentions that Thoreau's firewood warmed him twice because he labored to cut his own wood, why does she say that her wood froze her twice?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is meant by Thoreau's statement to "know your own bone"? How is this advice helpful to a writer?
Essay Topic 2
What advice did Dillard give to a reader asking if she would teach him to write? Describe the two different ways in which Dillard explains her advice.
Essay Topic 3
Dillard taped up her pen drawing of the scene outside her window to the venetian blinds. Explain how this helped her concentrate on her work.
What was missing in the drawing of the scene that was really outside the window? Why wasn't it enough for her to just close the blinds?
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