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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. When Dillard lacked sufficient energy for writing one morning in Chapter 3, what does she say she did to try and get it?
2. What written advice was found that Michelangelo had left for his apprentice?
3. Referring to a new idea, who said, 'Cheep--and all at once there it is'?
4. What did Dillard do when she was upstairs in a house and she felt a tremor under her feet in Chapter 4?
5. As put by Dillard, what is the vision in a writer's or painter's work?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Dillard mean in Chapter 5 when she writes, '...instead we watch television and miss the show'?
2. What did writers such as Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Ralph Ellison, and Eudora Welty have in common when learning to write, according to Dillard?
3. What does Dillard mean in Chapter 5 by 'Probe and search each object in a piece of art'?
4. In Chapter 5, how does Dillard compare a writer to a tennis player?
5. Who was Paul Glenn?
6. In Chapter 4, Dillard's typewriter erupted. What was the damage done?
7. Why does Dillard advise writers not to hoard a good idea for a later place in a book being written or for another book?
8. How does a work in progress turn on its author, according to Dillard?
9. Why does Dillard compare a writer writing a first draft to a Zulu warrior and an Aztec maiden?
10. Why does Dillard say that the life of the mind of a writer is hard to be called "living"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is meant by Thoreau's statement to "know your own bone"? How is this advice helpful to a writer?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
What is the overall theme of Chapter 1? Give examples to support your answer.
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