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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Jack London maintained that every writer needs a technique, experience, and what else?
(a) A certain personality.
(b) A philosophical position.
(c) An imagination.
(d) A pen.

3. What does Dillard have to say about appealing workplaces for writing?
(a) Avoid drabness at all costs.
(b) Bright yellow paint on the walls is best.
(c) They are to be avoided.
(d) The lovelier the scenery, the better.

4. Dillard believes that some writers weaken their resolve to discard parts of their work. Why?
(a) It is too much work.
(b) The words have come to have a necessary quality.
(c) People have told them it is too good to discard.
(d) They believe every word they write is too important to discard.

5. Oftentimes, what part of Dillard's work must be edited out?
(a) The opening paragraph.
(b) The best-written part.
(c) The dialogue.
(d) The typos and misspellings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dillard's "line of words" do with random pictures in the writer's mind?

2. How did Washington writer, Charlie Butts, write fiction in order to gain momentum?

3. What is the title of the Jack London book mentioned in Chapter 2?

4. Who said a long poem takes between five and ten years to write?

5. Who claimed to have written for twenty hours a day?

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