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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Dillard, how do painters work as opposed to writers?
(a) Painters work from the ground up, writers from left to right.
(b) Painters work on a blank canvas, writers on a computer.
(c) Painters work with their hands, writers with their heads.
(d) Painters work with color, writers with black and white.

2. What did Dillard's study carrel in the Hollins College library overlook?
(a) A grove of elm trees.
(b) A tar-and-gravel roof.
(c) A river.
(d) A brick wall.

3. What does Dillard describe as 'a net for catching days' in Chapter 2?
(a) A journal.
(b) Dreams.
(c) A schedule.
(d) Clocks.

4. What did Dillard do one night in the rare book room of the Virginia library?
(a) Moved a black chess piece.
(b) Knocked over a chess board.
(c) Moved a white chess piece.
(d) Left the lights on all night.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What sport did Dillard play with a boys' music camp?

2. What is needed in the world more than another excellent manuscript, as far as Dillard is concerned?

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

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

5. How long did it take William Faulkner to write "As I Lay Dying"?

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