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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. Who or what will teach someone to write, according to Dillard in Chapter 3?
2. Dillard repeated the phrase, 'It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay' over and over like a song in Chapter 5. What poem is this line from?
3. Why did Dillard feel that an author must visit her work every day?
4. What is the topic of an essay written by Dillard that she said she considers too obscure and too intellectual?
5. How does society regard the writer, in Dillard's experience?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why was a moth trying to gain altitude and ultimately drowning, in Chapter 3?
2. Why does Dillard say that she needed more materials than a pencil and paper in order to write something like a second draft for a thirty-page chapter?
3. When Dillard mentions that Thoreau's firewood warmed him twice because he labored to cut his own wood, why does she say that her wood froze her twice?
4. What does Dillard mean in Chapter 5 by 'Probe and search each object in a piece of art'?
5. Who was Paul Glenn?
6. Why did the island on Haro Strait haunt Dillard?
7. Why does Dillard say that the life of the mind of a writer is hard to be called "living"?
8. Why does Dillard advise writers not to hoard a good idea for a later place in a book being written or for another book?
9. The next-to-last sentence of Chapter 5 reads, 'Shall we go rowing again, we who believe we may indeed row off the edge and fall?' What does this refer to?
10. What was Glenn's story about Ferrar Burn?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Dillard taped up her pen drawing of the scene outside her window to the venetian blinds. Explain how this helped her concentrate on her work.
What was missing in the drawing of the scene that was really outside the window? Why wasn't it enough for her to just close the blinds?
Essay Topic 2
What is meant by Thoreau's statement to "know your own bone"? How is this advice helpful to a writer?
Essay Topic 3
What is wood-splitting a metaphor for in Chapter 3? What did Dillard learn besides how to properly split wood?
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