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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. How many hours of sleep would Jack London usually get?
2. What did Dillard do one night in the rare book room of the Virginia library?
3. In an analogy about a photographer, why did the photographer say he brought the same rejected photograph for judgment every year?
4. According to Dillard, how do painters work as opposed to writers?
5. When Dillard is watching symbols move on her monitor, which sends back numbers to her, what is it her job to do?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is 'the path' of the line of writing, as described in Chapter 1 by Dillard, not to be considered the actual work?
2. Why does Dillard feel that an appealing workplace for a writer should be avoided?
3. What, outside Dillard's library window, proved to cause the most distraction to her work?
4. Describe the inside of Dillard's study on Cape Cod.
5. In Chapter 1, what does Dillard say she thinks of as the usual reasons for an author getting stuck in a book?
6. 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"?
7. How does Dillard describe the way in which a writer might start the process of writing a book?
8. How is the line of Dillard's words likened to a hammer in Chapter 1?
9. What is the most appealing schedule that Dillard says she knows?
10. When Dillard heard a June bug bumping up against the carrel window one night, what did the noise bring her to realize?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe Dillard's reasoning behind why it makes more sense to write one long book rather than many stories or essays. Use the comparison of book chapters to short stories in your explanation.
Essay Topic 2
What is the overall theme of Chapter 1? Give examples to support your answer.
Essay Topic 3
What is meant by Thoreau's statement to "know your own bone"? How is this advice helpful to a writer?
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