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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4, 5 and 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What damage did the Smith-Corona typewriter do in Chapter 4?
(a) The table the typewriter was on collapsed.
(b) The writer's shirt was burned.
(c) The rug got damaged.
(d) The curtains were set on fire.

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

3. Which author would only write poetry when he was '...rather out of health'?
(a) Wallace Stevens.
(b) A.E. Housman.
(c) Osip Mandelstam.
(d) Jack London.

4. What made the teakettle in the faculty lounge look so interesting in Chapter 3?
(a) It had a picture of an Aztec on it.
(b) It had a clothespin jutting from its mouth.
(c) It was in the shape of a cow.
(d) It was only large enough for 8 ounces of liquid.

5. What does Dillard have to say about appealing workplaces for writing?
(a) They are to be avoided.
(b) Bright yellow paint on the walls is best.
(c) Avoid drabness at all costs.
(d) The lovelier the scenery, the better.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Dillard learn about herself while talking with the sheriff in Chapter 3?

2. How did a well-known writer respond to a student in Chapter 5 who asked if he could be a writer?

3. Who once said that '..his firewood warmed him twice because he labored to cut his own'?

4. What does Dillard say that she thinks an artist supposes a live image to possess?

5. What book was Dillard working on in Roanoke, Virginia?

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