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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Dillard relays a story about a cabdriver singing a boring song, why did the driver sing it twice?
(a) He was stalling for time.
(b) It had taken him a long time to get it right.
(c) He wanted to bore the author.
(d) It was a throw-away song.

2. In working-class France, what did Dillard say that experienced workers tell an apprentice who gets hurt or tired?
(a) He does not know his limits.
(b) He is adapting himself.
(c) He fits himself to the job.
(d) It is the trade entering his body.

3. What is the topic of an essay written by Dillard that she said she considers too obscure and too intellectual?
(a) Popcorn.
(b) A moth.
(c) A mustang.
(d) Lions.

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

5. With what type of aid did Dillard once work in order to keep a project organized?
(a) Two computers going at once.
(b) A fax machine.
(c) A paper sorter.
(d) A twenty-foot conference table.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the novel as a form usually represent, according to Dillard?

2. What was Dillard's study on Cape Cod?

3. What does Dillard compare writing to in the first paragraph of the book?

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

5. Where did Willa Cather write her prairie novels?

(see the answer key)

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