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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What was knocking on the carrel window as Dillard worked in Roanoke?
(a) A June bug.
(b) A bat.
(c) Rain.
(d) Mosquitos.
2. Who once said, "Which is the work in which he hasn't surrendered, under dire difficulty, the best thing he meant to have kept"?
(a) William Shakespeare.
(b) William Faulkner.
(c) Annie Dillard.
(d) Henry James.
3. To what does Dillard compare writing a book?
(a) A reality television show.
(b) Running a marathon.
(c) Learning to walk via crawling.
(d) Climbing a long ladder.
4. How did Dillard get into the library in Roanoke late at night?
(a) The door was never locked.
(b) She hid in the women's room when the door was locked.
(c) She had a key.
(d) She climbed in through a window.
5. What did Wallace Stevens dictate to his secretary?
(a) Letters.
(b) Orders for lunch.
(c) Editorial essays.
(d) Poetry.
6. Where does Dillard say she wound up putting her pen drawing in Chapter 2?
(a) Taped to the venetian blinds.
(b) On her kitchen fridge.
(c) Between the pages of her novel.
(d) On the wall of the library.
7. Finish this West African proverb from Chapter 2: "The beginning of wisdom is.."
(a) to get you a roof.
(b) listening to others.
(c) nature.
(d) to open a book.
8. Jack London maintained that every writer needs a technique, experience, and what else?
(a) A pen.
(b) An imagination.
(c) A certain personality.
(d) A philosophical position.
9. Who said a long poem takes between five and ten years to write?
(a) Emily Dickinson.
(b) Walt Whitman.
(c) Maya Angelou.
(d) John Berryman.
10. What question does Dillard say a writer must ask when considering random scenes that come to mind?
(a) Should I write everything I think of?
(b) Do I want to expose these scenes to the light?
(c) Is writing the same as film exposure?
(d) How many scenes do I need to write?
11. How does Dillard describe the process of writing a book?
(a) "It is a dreamlike task."
(b) "It is life at its most free."
(c) "It is boring and difficult."
(d) "It is something to avoid at all costs."
12. What is needed in the world more than another excellent manuscript, as far as Dillard is concerned?
(a) Shoes.
(b) Honey.
(c) Pollen.
(d) Bees.
13. As explained by Dillard in Chapter 1, what must be done to a piece of writing after the first draft is finished?
(a) It must be mercilessly edited.
(b) Delete just a few sentences.
(c) You must strike it with a hammer.
(d) Nothing; it is done.
14. What does Dillard say that she feels a writer must do about feeling one's work in progress is either magnificent or abominable?
(a) Ask for help from readers.
(b) Celebrate or cry.
(c) Ignore it and not indulge in the feeling.
(d) Get the work critiqued.
15. In an analogy about a photographer, why did the photographer say he brought the same rejected photograph for judgment every year?
(a) "...I had to climb a mountain to get it."
(b) "...I never throw anything away."
(c) "...I just know it is my best shot."
(d) "...I only used that camera this one time."
Short Answer Questions
1. Whose wife posed for the Liberty dime?
2. What does Dillard say many people prefer to the written word?
3. What happened in Bridgeport, Connecticut one morning in April, 1987?
4. According to Dillard, how do painters work as opposed to writers?
5. What was Dillard's study on Cape Cod?
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