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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dillard describe as 'a net for catching days' in Chapter 2?
(a) Dreams.
(b) Clocks.
(c) A journal.
(d) A schedule.

2. What sport did Dillard play with a boys' music camp?
(a) Flag Football.
(b) Basketball.
(c) Softball.
(d) Soccer.

3. 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.

4. What question does Dillard say a writer must ask when considering random scenes that come to mind?
(a) Is writing the same as film exposure?
(b) How many scenes do I need to write?
(c) Do I want to expose these scenes to the light?
(d) Should I write everything I think of?

5. 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) The sexist terms the man used.
(c) Her plants dying.
(d) Her lack of entertaining people.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do experienced writers urge young men and women to learn, according to Chapter 1?

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

3. In the life of a Danish aristocrat mentioned in Chapter 2, what did he do for most of the day?

4. When Dillard once wrote in a cinder-block cell, what scene did it overlook?

5. What was knocking on the carrel window as Dillard worked in Roanoke?

(see the answer key)

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