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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 Wallace Stevens dictate to his secretary?
(a) Orders for lunch.
(b) Letters.
(c) Editorial essays.
(d) Poetry.

2. What did Dillard's study carrel in the Hollins College library overlook?
(a) A tar-and-gravel roof.
(b) A grove of elm trees.
(c) A brick wall.
(d) A river.

3. Which book does Dillard say she discovered that she touched every night in the darkened library to find her room?
(a) World's End.
(b) The World I Live In.
(c) The World Without Us.
(d) It's the End of the World.

4. Who did Dillard see standing at the chess table in the Roanoke library one night?
(a) Her phantom opponent.
(b) The librarian's wife.
(c) A baby in a diaper.
(d) The head librarian.

5. Who did Dillard's neighbor, Glenn, tell her about when she returned to the island in late June?
(a) Bill Ferrar.
(b) Nicholas Ferrar.
(c) Ferrar Burn.
(d) Ferrar Fenton.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Willa Cather write her prairie novels?

2. What kept the teakettle that Dillard used in a faculty lounge from whistling?

3. What was Dillard's only physical activity in the one-room log cabin on an empty beach?

4. What is the topic of an essay written by Dillard that she said she considers too obscure and too intellectual?

5. What body of water did Dillard write near in Washington State?

(see the answer key)

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