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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does she realize is the best way to quiet her mind?
(a) by offering a nonchalant nod to the presence of words in the head
(b) taking a sleeping pill
(c) counting from 100 to zero backwards
(d) sitting quietly and breathing deeply

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

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

4. Dillard sees so much in the natural world which seems paradoxical. Why?
(a) she saw beauty side by side with horrors
(b) because half the day had sun, half did not
(c) because the same plant could heal you or kill you
(d) because large trees would block the sun from smaller ones

5. Dillard opens this first chapter remembering this animal.
(a) an alligator she saw in the zoo
(b) a poodle that lived down the street from her
(c) an old tomcat that she used to have
(d) a robin whose nest fell from the tree

Short Answer Questions

1. Even though she is no scientist, what did Dillard decide she will do in her valley?

2. Thinking about God and nature, what does Dillard come to believe is possible?

3. In Chapter 3, Dillard stalks a bird along the iced over creek. What kind of bird was it?

4. Why did Indians used grooved arrows?

5. What is it about weather that Dillard believes is a phenomena worth writing about?

(see the answer key)

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