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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. Which author would walk through the hills for seven or eight hours on end without a hint of fatigue?
(a) Dante.
(b) Nietzsche.
(c) Stevens.
(d) Emerson.

2. How did Dillard get into the library in Roanoke late at night?
(a) She had a key.
(b) She hid in the women's room when the door was locked.
(c) The door was never locked.
(d) She climbed in through a window.

3. What made the teakettle in the faculty lounge look so interesting in Chapter 3?
(a) It was only large enough for 8 ounces of liquid.
(b) It was in the shape of a cow.
(c) It had a clothespin jutting from its mouth.
(d) It had a picture of an Aztec on it.

4. What does Dillard say shocked her as she remembered a formal lunch with a publishing colleague in Chapter 2?
(a) The fanaticism of her twenties.
(b) Her plants dying.
(c) The sexist terms the man used.
(d) Her lack of entertaining people.

5. What was Dillard's study on Cape Cod?
(a) A pine shed.
(b) A small room in her home.
(c) A former lighthouse.
(d) The public library.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Washington writer, Charlie Butts, write fiction in order to gain momentum?

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

3. What ended the chess game for Dillard in Chapter 2?

4. Under what circumstances did Rabbi Uri of Strelisk tell his family to dispose of his manuscripts?

5. In Dillard's experience, what always wins over the vision being forgotten?

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