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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 Wallace Stevens dictate to his secretary?
(a) Letters.
(b) Editorial essays.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Orders for lunch.

2. 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.

3. Whose wife posed for the Liberty dime?
(a) Osip Mandelstam.
(b) Thomas Mann.
(c) Wilhelm Dinesen.
(d) Wallace Stevens.

4. What does Dillard say that she found so appealing about a Danish aristocrat?
(a) His life of leisure.
(b) His daily schedule.
(c) His title.
(d) His ability to relax.

5. In an analogy about a photographer, why did the photographer say he brought the same rejected photograph for judgment every year?
(a) "...I only used that camera this one time."
(b) "...I just know it is my best shot."
(c) "...I never throw anything away."
(d) "...I had to climb a mountain to get it."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When a writer is stuck while writing a book, what does Dillard think he should do?

3. Where was Ferrar heading as he rowed against the current all night?

4. Who said a long poem takes between five and ten years to write?

5. Where does the "line of words" go at the end of Chapter 1?

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