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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which insect is discussed in the book as part of an entomological experiment?
(a) A fly.
(b) A butterfly.
(c) A worm.
(d) Phataria.

2. When Dillard relays a story about a cabdriver singing a boring song, why did the driver sing it twice?
(a) He wanted to bore the author.
(b) It had taken him a long time to get it right.
(c) It was a throw-away song.
(d) He was stalling for time.

3. What happened in Bridgeport, Connecticut one morning in April, 1987?
(a) A Rabbi went to prayers.
(b) The author sustained a hairline fracture.
(c) A building collapsed.
(d) A writer was killed.

4. Where does the "line of words" go at the end of Chapter 1?
(a) To Venus.
(b) To Houston, Texas.
(c) Out past Jupiter.
(d) To the sun.

5. Dillard refers to writing as changing "..from an expression of your notions to an epistemological tool." What does epistemological mean?
(a) Surgical incision of the perineum during childbirth.
(b) A philosophy concerned with the nature and origin of knowledge.
(c) Bacterial DNA that is extrachromosomal.
(d) Greek knowledge.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which poem did Dillard often read aloud?

3. Who watched Dillard chop wood every morning in Washington?

4. To what does Dillard compare writing a book?

5. How many hours of sleep would Jack London usually get?

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