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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose poetry did Dillard usually read aloud when on a break?
(a) Frederick Buechner's.
(b) Ralph Waldo Emerson's.
(c) Conrad Aiken's.
(d) Walt Whitman's.

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

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

4. What does Dillard describe as 'a net for catching days' in Chapter 2?
(a) Clocks.
(b) A journal.
(c) Dreams.
(d) A schedule.

5. What does Dillard have to say about appealing workplaces for writing?
(a) Bright yellow paint on the walls is best.
(b) Avoid drabness at all costs.
(c) The lovelier the scenery, the better.
(d) They are to be avoided.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Dillard, what kind of life is a life of sensation?

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. Who did Dillard get a visit from in Chapter 3 that was eye-awakening for her?

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

5. As explained by Dillard in Chapter 1, what must be done to a piece of writing after the first draft is finished?

(see the answer key)

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