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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 2, Dillard talks of a game she played where she would hide what?
(a) Easter eggs
(b) Raggedy Ann dolls
(c) pennies
(d) dimes and quarters

2. What did the animal in question #1 often leave on Dillard's nightgown?
(a) a dead mouse
(b) wet, slimy mud off his paws
(c) cat hairs
(d) bloody, rose-shaped paw prints

3. Where does Dillard makes a pilgrimage to every month?
(a) to visit her mother in another state
(b) the the local church
(c) the small town a few miles away
(d) the island that bisects Tinker Creek

4. What does the animal in question #1 do to to get Dillard's attention?
(a) meows loudly
(b) jumps in through the open window and climbs on Dillard's chest
(c) knocks her glasses off onto the floor
(d) bats her leg with his paw

5. What is one of Dillard's main occupations in the winter?
(a) knitting
(b) watching television
(c) reading
(d) sewing

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the analogy she draws between the snake skin and the seasons?

3. When a scientist disrupted pine caterpillars' food trail, what happened?

4. How did Radford, Virginia decide to control their starling problem?

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

(see the answer key)

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