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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What question does Dillard say a writer must ask when considering random scenes that come to mind?
(a) How many scenes do I need to write?
(b) Do I want to expose these scenes to the light?
(c) Should I write everything I think of?
(d) Is writing the same as film exposure?

3. What happened in Bridgeport, Connecticut one morning in April, 1987?
(a) A building collapsed.
(b) A Rabbi went to prayers.
(c) The author sustained a hairline fracture.
(d) A writer was killed.

4. In an analogy about a photographer, why did the photographer say he brought the same rejected photograph for judgment every year?
(a) "...I only used that camera this one time."
(b) "...I had to climb a mountain to get it."
(c) "...I never throw anything away."
(d) "...I just know it is my best shot."

5. What was Dillard's study on Cape Cod?
(a) A former lighthouse.
(b) A pine shed.
(c) The public library.
(d) A small room in her home.

Short Answer Questions

1. When a writer is stuck while writing a book, what does Dillard think he should do?

2. What did Dillard do one night in the rare book room of the Virginia library?

3. What did Wallace Stevens dictate to his secretary?

4. What was seen outside the carrel window in Roanoke when Dillard peeked outside the blinds?

5. How did Dillard get into the library in Roanoke late at night?

(see the answer key)

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