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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 does society regard the writer, in Dillard's experience?
2. When Dillard left her cabin for home in Chapter 5 during a northeaster, how was she feeling, walking down the beach?
3. As put by Dillard, what is the vision in a writer's or painter's work?
4. Who once said that '..his firewood warmed him twice because he labored to cut his own'?
5. When Dillard lacked sufficient energy for writing one morning in Chapter 3, what does she say she did to try and get it?
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 the children who visited Dillard in Chapter 3 surprise her with?
3. 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?
4. Why does Dillard say that the life of the mind of a writer is hard to be called "living"?
5. Why did the island on Haro Strait haunt Dillard?
6. How does Dillard say that she believes a writer must control his or her own energies in order to work?
7. Why was a moth trying to gain altitude and ultimately drowning, in Chapter 3?
8. How does Dillard compare a writer to a Seminole alligator wrestler?
9. 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?
10. What is ludicrous about the tea kettle in the faculty lounge of the university that Dillard wrote in?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Dillard expresses the torturous, both in mind and body, experiences she has throughout the book. Her goal is to impart some wisdom and insight to the reader, especially those who want to write.
What wisdom has reading this book imparted to you? How will this wisdom be used?
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
What was Dillard, as a reader, looking for and hoping to find when reading? What emotions and insights did Dillard hope to find? What does Dillard believe many people do that inspires her to write "..instead we watch television and miss the show"?
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