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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Dillard's study carrel in the Hollins College library overlook?
(a) A river.
(b) A tar-and-gravel roof.
(c) A grove of elm trees.
(d) A brick wall.

2. When Dillard relays a story about a cabdriver singing a boring song, why did the driver sing it twice?
(a) He was stalling for time.
(b) He wanted to bore the author.
(c) It was a throw-away song.
(d) It had taken him a long time to get it right.

3. Jack London maintained that every writer needs a technique, experience, and what else?
(a) A certain personality.
(b) An imagination.
(c) A philosophical position.
(d) A pen.

4. Which book does Dillard say she discovered that she touched every night in the darkened library to find her room?
(a) The World Without Us.
(b) It's the End of the World.
(c) World's End.
(d) The World I Live In.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did it take William Faulkner to write "As I Lay Dying"?

2. What book was Dillard working on in Roanoke, Virginia?

3. Finish this West African proverb from Chapter 2: "The beginning of wisdom is.."

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

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

(see the answer key)

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