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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Dillard see standing at the chess table in the Roanoke library one night?
(a) A baby in a diaper.
(b) The librarian's wife.
(c) The head librarian.
(d) Her phantom opponent.

2. What animal, according to Dillard, is an analogy for characters in a writer's book "taking over"?
(a) The caterpillar.
(b) A shark.
(c) The lion.
(d) The sea star.

3. Who said a long poem takes between five and ten years to write?
(a) John Berryman.
(b) Walt Whitman.
(c) Maya Angelou.
(d) Emily Dickinson.

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

5. As explained by Dillard in Chapter 1, what must be done to a piece of writing after the first draft is finished?
(a) It must be mercilessly edited.
(b) Delete just a few sentences.
(c) Nothing; it is done.
(d) You must strike it with a hammer.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the main character in a story told by Ernest Thompson Seton?

3. In the life of a Danish aristocrat mentioned in Chapter 2, what did he do for most of the day?

4. Who does Dillard say that she believes to be one of the most prolific writers who has ever lived?

5. What did an inchworm search for in a panic in Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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