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

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

3. What is the finished work's relationship to the vision of it, as viewed by Dillard?
(a) Something unchanging compared to something temporal.
(b) Something new compared to an antique.
(c) Well-known passages compared to the vision filled in.
(d) A final draft compared to a second draft.

4. Whose poetry did Dillard usually read aloud when on a break?
(a) Ralph Waldo Emerson's.
(b) Frederick Buechner's.
(c) Conrad Aiken's.
(d) Walt Whitman's.

5. What did Dillard notice most in the Washington cabin she wrote in?
(a) The beauty.
(b) The view.
(c) The cold.
(d) The quiet.

Short Answer Questions

1. As put by Dillard, what is the vision in a writer's or painter's work?

2. What did Dillard once describe a moth on a ship as doing?

3. In an analogy about a photographer, why did the photographer say he brought the same rejected photograph for judgment every year?

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

5. Who is the Danish aristocrat mentioned in Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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