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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does it make more sense to write one big book rather than a collection of stories or essays, in Dillard's opinion?
(a) There is more money to be made with a book.
(b) A cast of characters is easier to work with.
(c) You can fit all you possess into a long project.
(d) It does not take as long to write one big book.

2. 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.

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

4. Who once said, "Which is the work in which he hasn't surrendered, under dire difficulty, the best thing he meant to have kept"?
(a) Henry James.
(b) William Faulkner.
(c) William Shakespeare.
(d) Annie Dillard.

5. What did Rahm's plane create in the air?
(a) Words.
(b) Pictures of clouds.
(c) Loud noise.
(d) Lines and shapes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Emily Dickinson love best in her writing?

2. What does Dillard say she believes poets and novelists like?

3. 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"?

4. How does Dillard say that she defines the life of the writer in Chapter 3?

5. Why did Dillard give up on everything while flying in the airplane with Rahm?

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