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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. Dillard believes that, with indifference, nature hides what?
(a) wonders from the eye
(b) butterflies
(c) waterfalls
(d) the agony of prey and hunter

2. How do praying mantises mate?
(a) A female will mate and devour up to seven male mantises
(b) the male kills the female when done and takes over the eggs
(c) the female lays eggs and the male comes by and fertilizes them
(d) they mate like people

3. Why did early Eskimos love winter?
(a) the seals are easier to kill
(b) they like to celebrate winter soltice
(c) the whales are closer to shore
(d) it is a time to use their sleds to visit other Eskimos

4. What does Dillard say happens the moment you are aware of the present?
(a) you lose it
(b) it becomes the past
(c) it freezes
(d) it no longer matters

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Dillard opens this first chapter remembering this animal.

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

3. What is the translation of trompes-l' esprit ?

4. What is one of Dillard's main occupations in the winter?

5. What does Dillard think is the reason for so many forms of insects?

(see the answer key)

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