Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the author say one can obtain "unself-conscious state?"
(a) through desperate illness
(b) pure devotion to whatever one is doing at the moment
(c) through meditation
(d) through intense exercise

2. Dillard believes that "weather overlaps" which causes what?
(a) snow on Easter
(b) rain in the backyard and sun in the front yard
(c) sun shining when it's raining
(d) there is only a few weeks of any season that is distinguishable from the former or following

3. What is the analogy she draws between the snake skin and the seasons?
(a) snakes shed skins in accordance with the seasons
(b) seasons are a continuous loop, just as she thought the snakeskin was
(c) there is no analogy between snakes and seasons
(d) snakes move depending on the season

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

5. How long does it take a tree to recreate ninety-nine percent of its living parts?
(a) a lifetime
(b) one year
(c) twenty-five years
(d) thirty days

Short Answer Questions

1. One branch of Jewish philosophy believes that part of the responsibility of humans is to do what?

2. How do mice reach the grain at the top of a stalk?

3. What is the literal act of seeing?

4. What did the animal in question #1 often leave on Dillard's nightgown?

5. Dillard wrote, "the present is fleet." What did she mean by this statement?

(see the answer key)

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