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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dillard say that she makes a pen drawing of in Chapter 2?
(a) Snapping turtles.
(b) Cows on a hilltop.
(c) The scenery outside her study carrel.
(d) People pulling into the parking lot.

2. What did Dillard find herself doing in the rare book room nearly every day for about two weeks?
(a) Playing chess with an unknown opponent.
(b) Writing notes to a chess player.
(c) Spying on the head librarian.
(d) Looking for rare books on chess.

3. What body of water did Dillard write near in Washington State?
(a) Strait of Georgia.
(b) Port of Vancouver.
(c) Puget Sound.
(d) The Columbia River.

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

5. Saint-Pol-Roux used to hang what sign on his door while he slept?
(a) "Resting is writing."
(b) "Dream in progress."
(c) "Do not disturb."
(d) "The poet is working."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Dillard claim as being a good life?

3. What did Dillard's study carrel in the Hollins College library overlook?

4. Why did Dillard feel that an author must visit her work every day?

5. What did Wallace Stevens dictate to his secretary?

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