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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What part of the body does the "line of words" in Chapter 1 invade?
(a) The soul.
(b) The lungs.
(c) The brain.
(d) The heart.

2. What is the title of the Jack London book mentioned in Chapter 2?
(a) White Fang.
(b) The Call of the Wild.
(c) The Sea-Wolf.
(d) The Iron Heel.

3. As put by Dillard, what is the vision in a writer's or painter's work?
(a) A piece of paper.
(b) The time and materials needed.
(c) A series of formal possibilities.
(d) The end result of the work.

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

5. What did Dillard find herself doing in the rare book room nearly every day for about two weeks?
(a) Looking for rare books on chess.
(b) Playing chess with an unknown opponent.
(c) Spying on the head librarian.
(d) Writing notes to a chess player.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What was knocking on the carrel window as Dillard worked in Roanoke?

4. Who once said, "Which is the work in which he hasn't surrendered, under dire difficulty, the best thing he meant to have kept"?

5. What made the teakettle in the faculty lounge look so interesting in Chapter 3?

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