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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, Section 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The balance enables her to think about the beauty without doing what?
(a) constantly remember the aspects of nature which she finds ugly
(b) making all of nature good
(c) wanting to move to a large city and never be in nature again
(d) making all of nature bad

2. How do blind people who suddenly gain sight usually see objects at first?
(a) as patches of colored light
(b) as bigger than they really are
(c) as black and white
(d) as all gray

3. How did the Romans use the horns of the altar?
(a) to tie their goats to which worshipping
(b) used to move the altar
(c) to kill geese with
(d) they'd grasp the horns and swear by them

4. How does the author see the violence in the natural world?
(a) as inevitable
(b) as something that needs changed
(c) as a symbolic sacrifice
(d) as a mistake God made

5. According to Dillard, how is the past healed?
(a) by meditating on forgiveness
(b) by focusing on the future
(c) by ignoring it
(d) if one stays in the present, the past is healed

Short Answer Questions

1. Believing natural disasters were sent by God is an example of what?

2. She claims the ability to see what is hidden is what?

3. What do the Eskimos do with the greens in their prey's stomach?

4. Why do birds sing?

5. What is Dillard illustrating in her story about the Polyphemus moth from her childhood?

(see the answer key)

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