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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was seen outside the carrel window in Roanoke when Dillard peeked outside the blinds?
(a) The parking lot.
(b) Daylight.
(c) A May beetle.
(d) Fireworks.

2. How long did it take William Faulkner to write "As I Lay Dying"?
(a) Six weeks.
(b) Six months.
(c) Ten years.
(d) Six years.

3. In Dillard's thoughts, what words stopped Rebbe Shmelke from hearing his teacher?
(a) "The Lord spoke."
(b) "God bless you."
(c) "Amen."
(d) "So be it."

4. Whose wife posed for the Liberty dime?
(a) Thomas Mann.
(b) Wilhelm Dinesen.
(c) Osip Mandelstam.
(d) Wallace Stevens.

5. Who once said, "Which is the work in which he hasn't surrendered, under dire difficulty, the best thing he meant to have kept"?
(a) William Faulkner.
(b) Annie Dillard.
(c) Henry James.
(d) William Shakespeare.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Dillard wrote in Roanoke, Virginia, what did she long for upon coming home after writing?

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

3. Why did Dillard refer to a Zulu warrior and an Aztec maiden in Chapter 3?

4. What does Dillard say that she feels a writer must do about feeling one's work in progress is either magnificent or abominable?

5. Who is the main character in a story told by Ernest Thompson Seton?

(see the answer key)

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