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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 did an inchworm search for in a panic in Chapter 1?
(a) A way in which to lift its hind legs to its front legs.
(b) A caterpillar.
(c) Its front legs.
(d) The next part of a blade of grass it was climbing.

2. What does Dillard claim as being a good life?
(a) A day spent reading.
(b) A life spent reading.
(c) A life lived in the senses.
(d) Living as a Danish aristocrat.

3. Who is the Danish aristocrat mentioned in Chapter 2?
(a) Wilhelm Dinesen.
(b) Wallace Stevens.
(c) Osip Mandelstam.
(d) Sverre Magnus.

4. Who did Dillard see standing at the chess table in the Roanoke library one night?
(a) The head librarian.
(b) A baby in a diaper.
(c) The librarian's wife.
(d) Her phantom opponent.

5. When Dillard once wrote in a cinder-block cell, what scene did it overlook?
(a) Cape Cod bay.
(b) A tar-and-gravel roof.
(c) A strip mall.
(d) Mountains.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In an analogy about a photographer, why did the photographer say he brought the same rejected photograph for judgment every year?

3. What was knocking on the carrel window as Dillard worked in Roanoke?

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

5. Who did Dillard's neighbor, Glenn, tell her about when she returned to the island in late June?

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