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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. Where, in Washington State, did Dillard beg a cabin in which to write?
(a) On Haro Strait.
(b) Boundary Pass.
(c) On Snake River.
(d) On Herron Island.

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

3. How do Tibetan lamas keep from floating away, as described in Chapter 5?
(a) They wear chains.
(b) They walk very slowly.
(c) The meditate towards the destination.
(d) They swim with the current.

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

5. What does Dillard say that she makes a pen drawing of in Chapter 2?
(a) Cows on a hilltop.
(b) People pulling into the parking lot.
(c) Snapping turtles.
(d) The scenery outside her study carrel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which book does Dillard say she discovered that she touched every night in the darkened library to find her room?

2. What did Dillard's study carrel in the Hollins College library overlook?

3. At the island on Haro Strait, why would a man overboard die within ten minutes?

4. What does the novel as a form usually represent, according to Dillard?

5. What did Dillard do one night in the rare book room of the Virginia library?

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