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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. What makes birds harder to watch than insects?
(a) they fly faster
(b) birds seem much more aware of their surroundings
(c) there are less of them
(d) they are not often on the ground

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

3. What does the author believe separates humans from their creator and humans from each other?
(a) hate
(b) self-consciousness
(c) fear
(d) indifference

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

5. What does Dillard mean when she says she's willing to sacrifice a little blood in order to be "in the thick of things?"
(a) she'd bleed to pick a rose
(b) she'd pick up a wild animal that might bite her
(c) she would fight on the front lines in any battle
(d) she would rather live life to its fullest even if it means being in danger

Short Answer Questions

1. What is figurative seeing?

2. Dillard says that a particular object remains unseen until what happens?

3. What does the author think about fish?

4. Dillard believes that, with indifference, nature hides what?

5. In Chapter 2, Dillard talks of a game she played where she would hide what?

(see the answer key)

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