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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 does Dillard say that she remembers seeing on the island at Haro Strait that made her weep on the shore in fear?
2. What did Dillard once describe a moth on a ship as doing?
3. What damage did the Smith-Corona typewriter do in Chapter 4?
4. Why did Dillard feel that an author must visit her work every day?
5. How did Dillard come to understand the proper way to split wood?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Dillard advise writers not to hoard a good idea for a later place in a book being written or for another book?
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. How does a work in progress turn on its author, according to Dillard?
5. How does Dillard say that she believes a writer must control his or her own energies in order to work?
6. How does Dillard compare a writer to a Seminole alligator wrestler?
7. What does Dillard mean in Chapter 5 when she writes, '...instead we watch television and miss the show'?
8. Why does Dillard compare a writer writing a first draft to a Zulu warrior and an Aztec maiden?
9. In Chapter 5, how does Dillard compare a writer to a tennis player?
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
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 2
What is meant by Thoreau's statement to "know your own bone"? How is this advice helpful to a writer?
Essay Topic 3
Dillard states that "Appealing workplaces are to be avoided."
1. Why might this be true?
2. How does Dillard know this to be true for her?
3. What should a writer's workplace consist of, and why?
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