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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, according to Dillard, is the life expectancy of a crop-duster pilot?
(a) Twenty years.
(b) Five years.
(c) Fifty years.
(d) Ten years.

2. Where does Dillard say she wound up putting her pen drawing in Chapter 2?
(a) Between the pages of her novel.
(b) On her kitchen fridge.
(c) Taped to the venetian blinds.
(d) On the wall of the library.

3. Who once said, "Which is the work in which he hasn't surrendered, under dire difficulty, the best thing he meant to have kept"?
(a) William Faulkner.
(b) Henry James.
(c) William Shakespeare.
(d) Annie Dillard.

4. Where did the pilot, Rahm, sit in the plane while flying?
(a) Toward the middle of the plane.
(b) He stood, mostly.
(c) At the tail end.
(d) At the plane's nose.

5. What does Dillard say many people prefer to the written word?
(a) Film.
(b) Recordings.
(c) Life.
(d) TV.

Short Answer Questions

1. Thornton Wilder cited an unnamed writer of sonnets as saying only one line drops from where?

2. What did Dillard use to crank herself up to write, in the log cabin in Chapter 3?

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

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

5. Who did Dillard's neighbor, Glenn, tell her about when she returned to the island in late June?

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