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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4, 5 and 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Dillard say that she defines the life of the writer in Chapter 3?
(a) As literary.
(b) As sensory.
(c) As colorless.
(d) As ludicrous.

3. 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 just know it is my best shot."
(c) "...I never throw anything away."
(d) "...I had to climb a mountain to get it."

4. What did Dillard's study carrel in the Hollins College library overlook?
(a) A tar-and-gravel roof.
(b) A river.
(c) A grove of elm trees.
(d) A brick wall.

5. Whose drawings and paintings did Dillard believe show his bewilderment and persistence?
(a) Rousseau.
(b) Picasso.
(c) Giacometti.
(d) Gaugan.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Dillard do when she was upstairs in a house and she felt a tremor under her feet in Chapter 4?

3. When Dillard once wrote in a cinder-block cell, what scene did it overlook?

4. What did a Dinka believe his own memories and daydreams to be?

5. When Dillard relays a story about a cabdriver singing a boring song, why did the driver sing it twice?

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