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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who said a long poem takes between five and ten years to write?
(a) John Berryman.
(b) Emily Dickinson.
(c) Walt Whitman.
(d) Maya Angelou.

2. What was knocking on the carrel window as Dillard worked in Roanoke?
(a) Mosquitos.
(b) Rain.
(c) A June bug.
(d) A bat.

3. What had Dillard forgotten all about as she worked on a Fourth-of-July night?
(a) Her books.
(b) Eating dinner.
(c) The rest of the world.
(d) Where she was in her writing.

4. What does Dillard say that she feels a writer must do about feeling one's work in progress is either magnificent or abominable?
(a) Ask for help from readers.
(b) Get the work critiqued.
(c) Ignore it and not indulge in the feeling.
(d) Celebrate or cry.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many hours of sleep would Jack London usually get?

2. In Dillard's thoughts, what words stopped Rebbe Shmelke from hearing his teacher?

3. What famous author said, "The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon....and at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a wood-shed with them"?

4. Jack London maintained that every writer needs a technique, experience, and what else?

5. How does Dillard describe the process of writing a book?

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