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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What filled all the windows as the plane made passes at the mountain in Chapter 7?
(a) Clouds.
(b) Rain.
(c) Pitching snow.
(d) Patches of fog.

3. What do television and films do to the body's senses, according to Dillard?
(a) Numb them.
(b) Make connections.
(c) They make the writer sense the need to write.
(d) Stimulate them.

4. What book was Dillard working on in Roanoke, Virginia?
(a) Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.
(b) Living by Fiction.
(c) Holy the Firm.
(d) An American Childhood.

5. What does Dillard say that she believes may well be a writer's only firsthand experience?
(a) College.
(b) Friendships.
(c) Travel.
(d) Childhood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Dillard ask Rahm to do when taking off from Stuart Island?

2. Whose poetry did Dillard usually read aloud when on a break?

3. What does Dillard say shocked her as she remembered a formal lunch with a publishing colleague in Chapter 2?

4. Where, in Washington State, did Dillard beg a cabin in which to write?

5. What sport did Dillard play with a boys' music camp?

(see the answer key)

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