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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does it generally take to write a book?
(a) One to ten months.
(b) Six months.
(c) One to five years.
(d) Two to ten years.

2. When Dillard wrote in Roanoke, Virginia, what did she long for upon coming home after writing?
(a) Cigarettes and coffee.
(b) A tolerant giant to soothe her.
(c) Sleeping till noon.
(d) A dreamless sleep.

3. What was seen outside the carrel window in Roanoke when Dillard peeked outside the blinds?
(a) Daylight.
(b) Fireworks.
(c) A May beetle.
(d) The parking lot.

4. What does Dillard say shocked her as she remembered a formal lunch with a publishing colleague in Chapter 2?
(a) Her plants dying.
(b) The sexist terms the man used.
(c) The fanaticism of her twenties.
(d) Her lack of entertaining people.

5. 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) Annie Dillard.
(b) William Faulkner.
(c) William Shakespeare.
(d) Henry James.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Dillard describe the process of writing a book?

2. What does Dillard say that she feels a writer must do about feeling one's work in progress is either magnificent or abominable?

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

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

5. According to Dillard, how do painters work as opposed to writers?

(see the answer key)

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