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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 kept the teakettle that Dillard used in a faculty lounge from whistling?
(a) An aluminum lid jammed over its mouth.
(b) It was not a whistling teakettle.
(c) The mouth of the kettle was always kept open.
(d) It was an electric kettle.

2. What passage was Dillard working on in the cabin on Puget Sound while a northeaster was blowing?
(a) A passage about a wild child.
(b) A marble statue of a Greek funerary.
(c) Rows of breaker waves resembling lines of writing.
(d) Christ's baptism in the bay in front of the house.

3. What ended the chess game for Dillard in Chapter 2?
(a) The opponent scrambled the board up completely.
(b) She finished writing her book.
(c) The baby went home.
(d) The custodian wished to stop playing.

4. What is the title of the Jack London book mentioned in Chapter 2?
(a) The Sea-Wolf.
(b) White Fang.
(c) The Call of the Wild.
(d) The Iron Heel.

5. When Dillard once wrote in a cinder-block cell, what scene did it overlook?
(a) Mountains.
(b) A strip mall.
(c) Cape Cod bay.
(d) A tar-and-gravel roof.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dillard say she believes poets and novelists like?

2. How does society regard the writer, in Dillard's experience?

3. According to Glenn's story, what was Ferrar after in the water?

4. Whose wife posed for the Liberty dime?

5. What question did Dillard ask Glenn that he answered with the story of Ferrar?

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