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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In an analogy about a photographer, why did the photographer say he brought the same rejected photograph for judgment every year?
(a) "...I just know it is my best shot."
(b) "...I only used that camera this one time."
(c) "...I had to climb a mountain to get it."
(d) "...I never throw anything away."

2. How did Washington writer, Charlie Butts, write fiction in order to gain momentum?
(a) He wrote while running mindless errands.
(b) He left every last written page in the middle of a sentence.
(c) He did not rise from his chair until writing 10 pages.
(d) He repeatedly left the house and wrote quickly upon return.

3. What does Dillard claim as being a good life?
(a) A life lived in the senses.
(b) Living as a Danish aristocrat.
(c) A life spent reading.
(d) A day spent reading.

4. As explained by Dillard in Chapter 1, what must be done to a piece of writing after the first draft is finished?
(a) It must be mercilessly edited.
(b) You must strike it with a hammer.
(c) Delete just a few sentences.
(d) Nothing; it is done.

5. What do television and films do to the body's senses, according to Dillard?
(a) Stimulate them.
(b) Make connections.
(c) Numb them.
(d) They make the writer sense the need to write.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Dillard say that she found so appealing about a Danish aristocrat?

3. Dillard refers to writing as changing "..from an expression of your notions to an epistemological tool." What does epistemological mean?

4. What animal, according to Dillard, is an analogy for characters in a writer's book "taking over"?

5. Who is the Danish aristocrat mentioned in Chapter 2?

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