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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4, 5 and 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who once said about writing, 'Know your own bone'?
(a) Thoreau.
(b) Truitt.
(c) Whitman.
(d) Ibsen.

2. What sport did Dillard play with a boys' music camp?
(a) Flag Football.
(b) Basketball.
(c) Soccer.
(d) Softball.

3. How did Dillard come to understand the proper way to split wood?
(a) Via a dream.
(b) The neighbors told her.
(c) She watched an instructional video.
(d) By sheer luck.

4. Who did Dillard get a visit from in Chapter 3 that was eye-awakening for her?
(a) The mail carrier.
(b) A volunteer EMS worker.
(c) Two local neighborhood boys.
(d) A writers' group.

5. What did Dillard notice most in the Washington cabin she wrote in?
(a) The beauty.
(b) The view.
(c) The quiet.
(d) The cold.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the finished work's relationship to the vision of it, as viewed by Dillard?

2. What does Dillard claim as being a good life?

3. Where did Willa Cather write her prairie novels?

4. What, according to Dillard, is the first thing a writer does that is similar to what a painter does?

5. How did a well-known writer respond to a student in Chapter 5 who asked if he could be a writer?

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