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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was knocking on the carrel window as Dillard worked in Roanoke?
(a) Mosquitos.
(b) Rain.
(c) A bat.
(d) A June bug.

2. What animal, according to Dillard, is an analogy for characters in a writer's book "taking over"?
(a) The sea star.
(b) A shark.
(c) The lion.
(d) The caterpillar.

3. Whose poetry did Dillard usually read aloud when on a break?
(a) Frederick Buechner's.
(b) Ralph Waldo Emerson's.
(c) Walt Whitman's.
(d) Conrad Aiken's.

4. Where, in Washington State, did Dillard beg a cabin in which to write?
(a) On Herron Island.
(b) On Snake River.
(c) Boundary Pass.
(d) On Haro Strait.

5. When a writer is stuck while writing a book, what does Dillard think he should do?
(a) Nothing but think about it.
(b) Do crosswords to stimulate the brain.
(c) Read books that are similar.
(d) Write, no matter what.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Dillard relays a story about a cabdriver singing a boring song, why did the driver sing it twice?

2. When Dillard lacked sufficient energy for writing one morning in Chapter 3, what does she say she did to try and get it?

3. According to Dillard, what kind of life is a life of sensation?

4. What was Dillard's only physical activity in the one-room log cabin on an empty beach?

5. Why did Dillard refer to a Zulu warrior and an Aztec maiden in Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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