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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 happened in Bridgeport, Connecticut one morning in April, 1987?
(a) The author sustained a hairline fracture.
(b) A writer was killed.
(c) A building collapsed.
(d) A Rabbi went to prayers.

2. What did Dillard study in Chapter 5?
(a) The world.
(b) Exhilaration.
(c) Literature.
(d) Paintboxes.

3. At the island on Haro Strait, why would a man overboard die within ten minutes?
(a) The whales were numerous.
(b) There were sharks.
(c) The water was very cold.
(d) The channel made the water unswimmable.

4. What does Dillard say that she thinks happens to something, such as a writing idea, that you do not give up freely and abundantly?
(a) It becomes better with age.
(b) It becomes lost to you.
(c) Someone else will get it.
(d) It will be poorly written.

5. What damage did the Smith-Corona typewriter do in Chapter 4?
(a) The writer's shirt was burned.
(b) The curtains were set on fire.
(c) The table the typewriter was on collapsed.
(d) The rug got damaged.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had Dillard forgotten all about as she worked on a Fourth-of-July night?

2. What did Dillard realize when she spoke to the local sheriff in Chapter 3?

3. How did a well-known writer respond to a student in Chapter 5 who asked if he could be a writer?

4. What does Dillard describe as 'a net for catching days' in Chapter 2?

5. What passage was Dillard working on in the cabin on Puget Sound while a northeaster was blowing?

(see the answer key)

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