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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What book was Dillard working on in Roanoke, Virginia?
(a) Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.
(b) Living by Fiction.
(c) An American Childhood.
(d) Holy the Firm.

2. What is the title of the Jack London book mentioned in Chapter 2?
(a) The Call of the Wild.
(b) The Sea-Wolf.
(c) White Fang.
(d) The Iron Heel.

3. What did Wallace Stevens dictate to his secretary?
(a) Letters.
(b) Orders for lunch.
(c) Editorial essays.
(d) Poetry.

4. What does Dillard compare writing to in the first paragraph of the book?
(a) Laying out a line of words.
(b) An ordeal to be probed.
(c) A path to pick through.
(d) A dead end.

5. What is needed in the world more than another excellent manuscript, as far as Dillard is concerned?
(a) Pollen.
(b) Shoes.
(c) Honey.
(d) Bees.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many hours of sleep would Jack London usually get?

2. How long does it generally take to write a book?

3. When Dillard wrote in Roanoke, Virginia, what did she long for upon coming home after writing?

4. What does Dillard say that she found so appealing about a Danish aristocrat?

5. What do television and films do to the body's senses, according to Dillard?

(see the answer key)

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