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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. Why are starlings hated in the Tinker Creek area?
(a) they eat all the worms and leave the ground bare
(b) they fly into houses and make nests
(c) they scare the children by flying around them
(d) they are smelly, messy, and noisy

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

3. What is figurative seeing?
(a) watching the invisible
(b) seeing in dreams
(c) closing the eyes and seeing another world
(d) seeing with the inner eye and looking beyond outward appearances

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

5. How did Radford, Virginia decide to control their starling problem?
(a) by spraying them with foam, so they would die of exposure
(b) bringing in a population of Maine bird cats
(c) putting out poisoned seed
(d) enclosing large nets around their area

Short Answer Questions

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

2. At a ranch, Dillard drew a horse. It wasn't a good picture. Others who lived at the ranch drew great horses. Why?

3. What is the literal act of seeing?

4. What does the animal in question #1 do to to get Dillard's attention?

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

(see the answer key)

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