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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What book was Dillard working on in Roanoke, Virginia?
(a) Living by Fiction.
(b) An American Childhood.
(c) Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.
(d) Holy the Firm.

2. How does Dillard describe the process of writing a book?
(a) "It is something to avoid at all costs."
(b) "It is a dreamlike task."
(c) "It is life at its most free."
(d) "It is boring and difficult."

3. Who claimed to have written for twenty hours a day?
(a) Wallace Stevens.
(b) Edgar Allen Poe.
(c) Jack London.
(d) James Patterson.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Washington writer, Charlie Butts, write fiction in order to gain momentum?

2. When Dillard relays a story about a cabdriver singing a boring song, why did the driver sing it twice?

3. Which book does Dillard say she discovered that she touched every night in the darkened library to find her room?

4. What question does Dillard say a writer must ask when considering random scenes that come to mind?

5. How did Dillard get into the library in Roanoke late at night?

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