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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 was addicted to cigarettes.
(c) She was not good at it.
(d) She had nothing new to say.

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

3. What, according to Dillard, is the life expectancy of a crop-duster pilot?
(a) Fifty years.
(b) Five years.
(c) Ten years.
(d) Twenty years.

4. What ended the chess game for Dillard in Chapter 2?
(a) The opponent scrambled the board up completely.
(b) The custodian wished to stop playing.
(c) She finished writing her book.
(d) The baby went home.

5. Which aircraft did Rahm take Dillard up in?
(a) A turboprop.
(b) A helicopter.
(c) The trick biplane.
(d) A single-engine Cessna.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose wife posed for the Liberty dime?

2. When Dillard once wrote in a cinder-block cell, what scene did it overlook?

3. Why did Dillard write that 'People should not feed moralistic animals'?

4. According to Glenn's story, what was Ferrar after in the water?

5. What is an Olympic gymnast hard put to do after a line of spins and stunts, according to Dillard?

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