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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the oddest, most exhilarating and exhausting thing about the Rahm air show for Dillard?
(a) He came too close to the edge of crashing.
(b) He did not crash.
(c) He never quit.
(d) The show was too long and boring.

2. Which author would walk through the hills for seven or eight hours on end without a hint of fatigue?
(a) Nietzsche.
(b) Dante.
(c) Stevens.
(d) Emerson.

3. Why did Dillard momentarily feel she must quit writing in Chapter 3?
(a) She was too young to be living at a desk.
(b) She had nothing new to say.
(c) She was addicted to cigarettes.
(d) She was not good at it.

4. What kept the teakettle that Dillard used in a faculty lounge from whistling?
(a) The mouth of the kettle was always kept open.
(b) It was an electric kettle.
(c) An aluminum lid jammed over its mouth.
(d) It was not a whistling teakettle.

5. What did an inchworm search for in a panic in Chapter 1?
(a) A caterpillar.
(b) The next part of a blade of grass it was climbing.
(c) A way in which to lift its hind legs to its front legs.
(d) Its front legs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dillard repeated the phrase, 'It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay' over and over like a song in Chapter 5. What poem is this line from?

2. What animal, according to Dillard, is an analogy for characters in a writer's book "taking over"?

3. Where was Ferrar heading as he rowed against the current all night?

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

5. 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"?

(see the answer key)

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