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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. What sport did Dillard play with a boys' music camp?
(a) Softball.
(b) Soccer.
(c) Flag Football.
(d) Basketball.

2. Who once said about writing, 'Know your own bone'?
(a) Thoreau.
(b) Whitman.
(c) Ibsen.
(d) Truitt.

3. When Dillard is watching symbols move on her monitor, which sends back numbers to her, what is it her job to do?
(a) Stop immediately.
(b) Translate the numbers.
(c) Go for a drive.
(d) Hold her breath.

4. What does Dillard say many people prefer to the written word?
(a) Film.
(b) TV.
(c) Recordings.
(d) Life.

5. What is the finished work's relationship to the vision of it, as viewed by Dillard?
(a) A final draft compared to a second draft.
(b) Something unchanging compared to something temporal.
(c) Something new compared to an antique.
(d) Well-known passages compared to the vision filled in.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of the Jack London book mentioned in Chapter 2?

2. What did Dillard use to crank herself up to write, in the log cabin in Chapter 3?

3. Where did Willa Cather write her prairie novels?

4. What did Emily Dickinson love best in her writing?

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

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