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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 is a writer compared to in Chapter 5?
(a) A tiger trainer.
(b) A boxer.
(c) A moth flying into a flame.
(d) An alligator wrestler.

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

3. Why did Dillard refer to a Zulu warrior and an Aztec maiden in Chapter 3?
(a) To show what an author is like.
(b) As an idea for a writing theme.
(c) As an analogy for readiness and preparation.
(d) To compare writers to religious icons.

4. What does Dillard say she believes poets and novelists like?
(a) Books about writing.
(b) The thought of themselves as writers.
(c) Poems and novels.
(d) Writers from the nineteenth century.

5. What does the impulse to save something good for a better place later signify, according to Dillard?
(a) It should be used later.
(b) It should be hoarded.
(c) It should be used now.
(d) It should be forgotten.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Dillard's experience, what always wins over the vision being forgotten?

2. What was seen outside the carrel window in Roanoke when Dillard peeked outside the blinds?

3. Where, in Washington State, did Dillard beg a cabin in which to write?

4. Whose poetry did Dillard usually read aloud when on a break?

5. Where did Dillard forget about a boiling teakettle and burn it?

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