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

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

3. What famous author said, "The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon....and at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a wood-shed with them"?
(a) Walt Whitman.
(b) Henry James.
(c) Henry Thoreau.
(d) Thomas Mann.

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

5. What written advice was found that Michelangelo had left for his apprentice?
(a) Paint, Antonio...and get it done now.
(b) Draw, Antonio..and do not waste time.
(c) Antonio, do as I have done.
(d) Use your ideas immediately, Antonio.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what type of aid did Dillard once work in order to keep a project organized?

2. What do television and films do to the body's senses, according to Dillard?

3. Whose wife posed for the Liberty dime?

4. What does Dillard's "line of words" do with random pictures in the writer's mind?

5. What does Dillard say that the printed word cannot compete with?

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