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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Dillard, what kind of life is a life of sensation?
(a) A life of greed.
(b) A good life.
(c) A life of spirit.
(d) A life spent reading.

2. When Dillard once wrote in a cinder-block cell, what scene did it overlook?
(a) Cape Cod bay.
(b) A strip mall.
(c) Mountains.
(d) A tar-and-gravel roof.

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

4. What does the impulse to save something good for a better place later signify, according to Dillard?
(a) It should be used now.
(b) It should be forgotten.
(c) It should be hoarded.
(d) It should be used later.

5. Who said a long poem takes between five and ten years to write?
(a) Emily Dickinson.
(b) John Berryman.
(c) Maya Angelou.
(d) Walt Whitman.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Dillard's experience, what always wins over the vision being forgotten?

2. Why did Dillard refer to a Zulu warrior and an Aztec maiden in Chapter 3?

3. According to Glenn's story, what was Ferrar after in the water?

4. Who wrote, 'He goes because he must, as Galahad went towards the Grail; knowing that for those who can live it, this alone is life'?

5. What is the finished work's relationship to the vision of it, as viewed by Dillard?

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