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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As put by Dillard, what is the vision in a writer's or painter's work?
(a) A series of formal possibilities.
(b) The time and materials needed.
(c) The end result of the work.
(d) A piece of paper.

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

3. What does Dillard say shocked her as she remembered a formal lunch with a publishing colleague in Chapter 2?
(a) The fanaticism of her twenties.
(b) Her plants dying.
(c) Her lack of entertaining people.
(d) The sexist terms the man used.

4. Dillard believes that some writers weaken their resolve to discard parts of their work. Why?
(a) They believe every word they write is too important to discard.
(b) People have told them it is too good to discard.
(c) The words have come to have a necessary quality.
(d) It is too much work.

5. Which author would walk through the hills for seven or eight hours on end without a hint of fatigue?
(a) Nietzsche.
(b) Stevens.
(c) Dante.
(d) Emerson.

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. With what type of aid did Dillard once work in order to keep a project organized?

3. Who said a long poem takes between five and ten years to write?

4. What does Dillard have to say about appealing workplaces for writing?

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

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