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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 did Dillard study in Chapter 5?
(a) Exhilaration.
(b) The world.
(c) Paintboxes.
(d) Literature.

2. What was Dillard's painter neighbor, Glenn, working on for six months in Chapter 6?
(a) Folded sculpture.
(b) Dipping papers into vats of colored oil on water.
(c) Landscapes painted by dripping paint on canvas.
(d) Painting over marbleized papers.

3. Who did Dillard get a visit from in Chapter 3 that was eye-awakening for her?
(a) A volunteer EMS worker.
(b) A writers' group.
(c) The mail carrier.
(d) Two local neighborhood boys.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Dillard, what kind of life is a life of sensation?

2. Where did Willa Cather write her prairie novels?

3. What does Dillard describe as 'a net for catching days' in Chapter 2?

4. Who is the Danish aristocrat mentioned in Chapter 2?

5. What did Dillard use to crank herself up to write, in the log cabin in Chapter 3?

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