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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What part of the body does the "line of words" in Chapter 1 invade?
(a) The heart.
(b) The soul.
(c) The brain.
(d) The lungs.

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

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

4. When Dillard once wrote in a cinder-block cell, what scene did it overlook?
(a) A strip mall.
(b) Mountains.
(c) Cape Cod bay.
(d) A tar-and-gravel roof.

5. Who is the Danish aristocrat mentioned in Chapter 2?
(a) Wallace Stevens.
(b) Osip Mandelstam.
(c) Wilhelm Dinesen.
(d) Sverre Magnus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had Dillard forgotten all about as she worked on a Fourth-of-July night?

2. To what does Dillard compare writing a book?

3. What did Dillard do one night in the rare book room of the Virginia library?

4. Dillard believes that some writers weaken their resolve to discard parts of their work. Why?

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

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