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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 say that she makes a pen drawing of in Chapter 2?
(a) Snapping turtles.
(b) Cows on a hilltop.
(c) People pulling into the parking lot.
(d) The scenery outside her study carrel.

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

3. 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.

4. Finish this West African proverb from Chapter 2: "The beginning of wisdom is.."
(a) to open a book.
(b) to get you a roof.
(c) listening to others.
(d) nature.

5. In an analogy about a photographer, why did the photographer say he brought the same rejected photograph for judgment every year?
(a) "...I just know it is my best shot."
(b) "...I never throw anything away."
(c) "...I had to climb a mountain to get it."
(d) "...I only used that camera this one time."

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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