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

2. Fecundity could be defined as:
(a) prolific in offspring
(b) a type of fat
(c) always hungry
(d) wasteful of resources

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

4. Silvery eels swim to the sea after eight years of maturing in obscure creeks and rivers. What happens to them at the sea?
(a) they mate with other eels then return to the fresh water
(b) they have offspring and bring them back in two years
(c) they lay their eggs and then die
(d) they lay eggs and then go into deep water for the rest of their lives

5. After she examines the snake skin closely, what does she figure out?
(a) it was alive
(b) it was not real
(c) it was not a snake but a long, skinny lizard
(d) she realizes that the snake had turned parts of the skin inside out, making it appear as though the skin is in a knot

Short Answer Questions

1. Before a baby can distinguish objects, what kind does it prefer?

2. Dillard believes that "weather overlaps" which causes what?

3. If you could watch the unfolding through time of every thing that ever existed on Earth, what does Dillard say you would see?

4. What is the other type of poisonous snake besides the answer in #139, that lives around the creek area?

5. When ancient Hebrews sacrificed an animal to their god, how did they use the horns?

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