Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do mice reach the grain at the top of a stalk?
(a) they climb a tree and jump onto the stalk
(b) they climb the stalk on the back of other mice
(c) they wait for the farmer to cut the field
(d) mice chew wheat stems piece by piece

2. When Richmond loses electricity Dillard says something happened at the governor's mansion. What?
(a) the security alarm quit working
(b) the first floor is flooded
(c) the basement is destroyed
(d) one bulb in the governor's mansion continues to glow

3. What did Dillard do at one time about insects as a child?
(a) watched them in the grass with a magnifying glass
(b) killed bugs with carbon tetrachloride and then pinned them on labeled boards
(c) catch fireflies in glass jars to watch them glow
(d) shooed them out of the house before her mother could kill them

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

5. What does the author see as an active mystery?
(a) Tinker Creek
(b) whether it will rain that day
(c) if the creek will ever get bigger
(d) whether there's life after death

Short Answer Questions

1. If there were only one tree in the world, what would happen, according to the author?

2. What does Dillard's fascination and stories about praying mantises demonstrate?

3. How does a young muskrat get fed?

4. Dillard sees so much in the natural world which seems paradoxical. Why?

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

(see the answer key)

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