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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is needed in the world more than another excellent manuscript, as far as Dillard is concerned?
2. In an analogy about a photographer, why did the photographer say he brought the same rejected photograph for judgment every year?
3. When Dillard once wrote in a cinder-block cell, what scene did it overlook?
4. Under what circumstances did Rabbi Uri of Strelisk tell his family to dispose of his manuscripts?
5. Where does Dillard say she wound up putting her pen drawing in Chapter 2?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the meaning of Thoreau's note that "The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or perchance a palace or temple on the earth, and at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a wood-shed with them"?
2. Why did the inchworm in Dillard's story keep asking itself, "What! No further"?
3. How is the line of Dillard's words likened to a hammer in Chapter 1?
4. Why does Dillard say that she made a pen drawing of the scenes outside her library window?
5. How does Dillard describe the way in which a writer might start the process of writing a book?
6. Describe the inside of Dillard's study on Cape Cod.
7. Dillard vows to remember her difficulties writing in Roanoke, Virginia. Why is this ironic?
8. In Chapter 1, what does Dillard say she thinks of as the usual reasons for an author getting stuck in a book?
9. When Dillard glanced in the daylight at one of the stacks of books she regularly touched to feel her way at night, what surprised her?
10. When Dillard was working in the library at night, how did she find her way around in the dark?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the overall theme of Chapter 1? Give examples to support your answer.
Essay Topic 2
What is wood-splitting a metaphor for in Chapter 3? What did Dillard learn besides how to properly split wood?
Essay Topic 3
Explain the vision of what a projected work of art is, whether it be writing or painting. How does the vision lead one to a finished product?
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