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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Dillard forget about a boiling teakettle and burn it?
(a) A faculty lounge in a university.
(b) Her kitchen.
(c) A cabin on Puget Sound.
(d) An office in a college.

2. What is the finished work's relationship to the vision of it, as viewed by Dillard?
(a) A final draft compared to a second draft.
(b) Something new compared to an antique.
(c) Well-known passages compared to the vision filled in.
(d) Something unchanging compared to something temporal.

3. Whose drawings and paintings did Dillard believe show his bewilderment and persistence?
(a) Picasso.
(b) Rousseau.
(c) Giacometti.
(d) Gaugan.

4. Oftentimes, what part of Dillard's work must be edited out?
(a) The best-written part.
(b) The dialogue.
(c) The typos and misspellings.
(d) The opening paragraph.

5. How long did it take William Faulkner to write "As I Lay Dying"?
(a) Six months.
(b) Six years.
(c) Six weeks.
(d) Ten years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did many geology departments throughout the country use of Rahm's?

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

3. What does Dillard say that the printed word cannot compete with?

4. Dillard believes that some writers weaken their resolve to discard parts of their work. Why?

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

(see the answer key)

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