2. What does Dillard have to say about appealing workplaces for writing?
(a) The lovelier the scenery, the better.
(b) Avoid drabness at all costs.
(c) Bright yellow paint on the walls is best.
(d) They are to be avoided.

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

4. Which book does Dillard say she discovered that she touched every night in the darkened library to find her room?
(a) The World I Live In.
(b) The World Without Us.
(c) It's the End of the World.
(d) World's End.

5. How long does it generally take to write a book?
(a) Six months.
(b) Two to ten years.
(c) One to ten months.
(d) One to five years.

6. How does Dillard describe the process of writing a book?
(a) "It is life at its most free."
(b) "It is a dreamlike task."
(c) "It is boring and difficult."
(d) "It is something to avoid at all costs."

7. When a writer is stuck while writing a book, what does Dillard think he should do?
(a) Nothing but think about it.
(b) Read books that are similar.
(c) Write, no matter what.
(d) Do crosswords to stimulate the brain.

8. What does Dillard's "line of words" do with random pictures in the writer's mind?
(a) Dissects them out.
(b) Dismisses them.
(c) Writes them down, word for word.
(d) Dreams of them.

9. According to Dillard, what kind of life is a life of sensation?
(a) A life spent reading.
(b) A life of greed.
(c) A life of spirit.
(d) A good life.

10. Where does the "line of words" go at the end of Chapter 1?
(a) To the sun.
(b) To Venus.
(c) To Houston, Texas.
(d) Out past Jupiter.

11. Saint-Pol-Roux used to hang what sign on his door while he slept?
(a) "Dream in progress."
(b) "Resting is writing."
(c) "The poet is working."
(d) "Do not disturb."

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

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

14. As explained by Dillard in Chapter 1, what must be done to a piece of writing after the first draft is finished?
(a) Delete just a few sentences.
(b) It must be mercilessly edited.
(c) You must strike it with a hammer.
(d) Nothing; it is done.

15. What famous author said, "The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon....and at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a wood-shed with them"?
(a) Walt Whitman.
(b) Thomas Mann.
(c) Henry James.
(d) Henry Thoreau.