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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. Where did Dillard forget about a boiling teakettle and burn it?
(a) A cabin on Puget Sound.
(b) An office in a college.
(c) A faculty lounge in a university.
(d) Her kitchen.

2. What ended the chess game for Dillard in Chapter 2?
(a) She finished writing her book.
(b) The custodian wished to stop playing.
(c) The baby went home.
(d) The opponent scrambled the board up completely.

3. Finish this West African proverb from Chapter 2: "The beginning of wisdom is.."
(a) to open a book.
(b) listening to others.
(c) nature.
(d) to get you a roof.

4. What body of water did Dillard write near in Washington State?
(a) Puget Sound.
(b) Strait of Georgia.
(c) Port of Vancouver.
(d) The Columbia River.

5. Dillard repeated the phrase, 'It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay' over and over like a song in Chapter 5. What poem is this line from?
(a) Sunday Morning.
(b) Poem Written at Morning.
(c) Valley Candle.
(d) The Well Dressed Man with a Beard.

Short Answer Questions

1. Referring to a new idea, who said, 'Cheep--and all at once there it is'?

2. What does the impulse to save something good for a better place later signify, according to Dillard?

3. What book was Dillard working on in Roanoke, Virginia?

4. Whose drawings and paintings did Dillard believe show his bewilderment and persistence?

5. What does Dillard say that she feels a writer must do about feeling one's work in progress is either magnificent or abominable?

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