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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. What, according to Dillard, is the first thing a writer does that is similar to what a painter does?
(a) Shapes the vision of the work.
(b) Ignores the first faint marks on the canvas or page.
(c) Shapes a vision of the world.
(d) Brings the vision of the work to light.

2. Which author would walk through the hills for seven or eight hours on end without a hint of fatigue?
(a) Dante.
(b) Emerson.
(c) Stevens.
(d) Nietzsche.

3. What did Dillard use to crank herself up to write, in the log cabin in Chapter 3?
(a) A daily jog on the beach.
(b) The company of a cat and dog.
(c) Coffee in titrated doses.
(d) Photos of lions.

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

5. 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'?
(a) Henry Thoreau.
(b) Wallace Stevens.
(c) Albert Einstein.
(d) Evelyn Underhill.

Short Answer Questions

1. Referring to a new idea, who said, 'Cheep--and all at once there it is'?

2. What does Dillard claim as being a good life?

3. Which poem did Dillard often read aloud?

4. How many hours of sleep would Jack London usually get?

5. Why did Dillard feel that an author must visit her work every day?

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