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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. Why was Dillard's finger in pain at times as she wrote in the university office in Virginia?
2. What did Dillard study in Chapter 5?
3. Why does it make more sense to write one big book rather than a collection of stories or essays, in Dillard's opinion?
4. Where, in Washington State, did Dillard beg a cabin in which to write?
5. What body of water did Dillard write near in Washington State?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Dillard learn from the local ferryman?
2. What did the children who visited Dillard in Chapter 3 surprise her with?
3. 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?
4. What was unfortunate about Dillard learning how to split wood correctly?
5. Why does Dillard say that the life of the mind of a writer is hard to be called "living"?
6. What does Dillard mean in Chapter 5 when she writes, '...instead we watch television and miss the show'?
7. How does a work in progress turn on its author, according to Dillard?
8. Who was Paul Glenn?
9. What does Dillard mean in Chapter 5 by 'Probe and search each object in a piece of art'?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Dillard asks why anyone would read books with advertising slogans and brand names in them.
Why does Dillard feel this is not a good thing to have in books?
Do you agree with her? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
In Chapter 4, Dillard's Smith-Corona typewriter erupted in smoke and flames during an earthquake. What does the Beckett quote at the beginning of the chapter tell us about Dillard's personality or character? What could the fired-up typewriter be a metaphor for? Why?
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