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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Rahm practice acrobatic flights over the Bellingham shores?
(a) It was near his home.
(b) To impress the author.
(c) It was close to the mountains.
(d) He could ditch in the salt chuck if necessary.

2. 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.

3. Who said a long poem takes between five and ten years to write?
(a) John Berryman.
(b) Emily Dickinson.
(c) Maya Angelou.
(d) Walt Whitman.

4. What did Dillard notice most in the Washington cabin she wrote in?
(a) The beauty.
(b) The view.
(c) The quiet.
(d) The cold.

5. Who did Dillard get a visit from in Chapter 3 that was eye-awakening for her?
(a) A writers' group.
(b) Two local neighborhood boys.
(c) The mail carrier.
(d) A volunteer EMS worker.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Dillard find herself doing in the rare book room nearly every day for about two weeks?

2. What did Rahm do for a living?

3. What did many geology departments throughout the country use of Rahm's?

4. Who once said, "Which is the work in which he hasn't surrendered, under dire difficulty, the best thing he meant to have kept"?

5. What did Dillard watch when the air show was over?

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