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

2. Which author would walk through the hills for seven or eight hours on end without a hint of fatigue?
(a) Stevens.
(b) Dante.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) Emerson.

3. What did Frederick Buechner note about an author realizing that he is actually writing?
(a) The writer should revise what was written.
(b) It calls for a break or celebration.
(c) It must go on once it is noticed.
(d) The wood must be split and fired.

4. Jack London maintained that every writer needs a technique, experience, and what else?
(a) An imagination.
(b) A certain personality.
(c) A philosophical position.
(d) A pen.

5. How did Dillard come to understand the proper way to split wood?
(a) By sheer luck.
(b) Via a dream.
(c) The neighbors told her.
(d) She watched an instructional video.

Short Answer Questions

1. What made the teakettle in the faculty lounge look so interesting in Chapter 3?

2. What did Dillard find herself doing in the rare book room nearly every day for about two weeks?

3. To what does Dillard compare writing a book?

4. How does society regard the writer, in Dillard's experience?

5. Why was Dillard's finger in pain at times as she wrote in the university office in Virginia?

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