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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which poem did Dillard often read aloud?
(a) The Comet.
(b) The Tower.
(c) Miracles.
(d) Sea Hollly.

2. What did Dillard realize when she spoke to the local sheriff in Chapter 3?
(a) She loved running a ferryboat.
(b) She loved writing.
(c) She was like one who worked in a factory all day.
(d) She was a good, sane person.

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

4. A month after Dillard flew with Rahm, what did she witness in Bellingham?
(a) Rahm's plane crashing to the ground.
(b) A long mathematical proof in the sky.
(c) Rahm playing classical music on his plane.
(d) Rahm flying his plane over Bellingham.

5. How do Tibetan lamas keep from floating away, as described in Chapter 5?
(a) They swim with the current.
(b) They wear chains.
(c) The meditate towards the destination.
(d) They walk very slowly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dillard say shocked her as she remembered a formal lunch with a publishing colleague in Chapter 2?

2. Who once said, "Which is the work in which he hasn't surrendered, under dire difficulty, the best thing he meant to have kept"?

3. Who set up Dillard's flight with Rahm?

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

5. Who wrote, 'He goes because he must, as Galahad went towards the Grail; knowing that for those who can live it, this alone is life'?

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