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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 do when she was upstairs in a house and she felt a tremor under her feet in Chapter 4?
(a) She called the emergency phone number.
(b) She went downstairs in case the stairway collapsed.
(c) She collected her writing to keep it from being damaged.
(d) Nothing; she was used to earthquakes.

2. Why did Dillard feel that an author must visit her work every day?
(a) To hope it will get better.
(b) To be brave about it.
(c) To reassert mastery over it.
(d) To feel sympathy for it.

3. How did a well-known writer respond to a student in Chapter 5 who asked if he could be a writer?
(a) Have you taken my course?
(b) Do you like sentences?
(c) What do you know about the world?
(d) Do you have imagination?

4. Who claimed to have written for twenty hours a day?
(a) Wallace Stevens.
(b) Edgar Allen Poe.
(c) Jack London.
(d) James Patterson.

5. What does the novel as a form usually represent, according to Dillard?
(a) Non-commericialism.
(b) Poetry.
(c) History.
(d) Society.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Dillard see standing at the chess table in the Roanoke library one night?

2. What made the teakettle in the faculty lounge look so interesting in Chapter 3?

3. When Dillard once wrote in a cinder-block cell, what scene did it overlook?

4. Who once said that '..his firewood warmed him twice because he labored to cut his own'?

5. What was Dillard's painter neighbor, Glenn, working on for six months in Chapter 6?

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