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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Section 1.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Chlorophyll has a single atom of what substance in the center?
(a) carbon
(b) zinc
(c) magnesium
(d) hydrogen
2. How much of life which has ever been created, is living at the present time?
(a) around 45 percent
(b) 80 percent of all life ever created still exist
(c) about half
(d) about ten percent
3. Dillard says that if plants had emotions, she would applaud this:
(a) their willingness to live in harmony
(b) their kindness
(c) their ability to tolerate other life forms
(d) their ability to fly in the teeth of it all
4. When Dillard is looking at a stream, where does she look?
(a) in the center of the water
(b) at the water going over the rocks
(c) she always looks upstream
(d) on the north bank
5. Fecundity could be defined as:
(a) wasteful of resources
(b) prolific in offspring
(c) always hungry
(d) a type of fat
Short Answer Questions
1. How do ladybugs hibernate?
2. How large might a root system for winter rye grass plant grow?
3. In Chapter 3, Dillard stalks a bird along the iced over creek. What kind of bird was it?
4. When Dillard raps on the goldfish bowl, what does the fish do?
5. What is the analogy she draws between the snake skin and the seasons?
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