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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For wild animals, Dillards sees enduring parasitic invasions as what?
(a) a way for animals to die
(b) something deadly
(c) the cost of life
(d) as a blessing

2. What does the principle of indeterminacy invalidate?
(a) that hummingbirds can sit still
(b) that light travels in a circle
(c) that the moon causes the tides
(d) the notion of cause and effect

3. Dillard says that if plants had emotions, she would applaud this:
(a) their ability to tolerate other life forms
(b) their ability to fly in the teeth of it all
(c) their kindness
(d) their willingness to live in harmony

4. What do the Eskimos do with the greens in their prey's stomach?
(a) they never look in the stomach
(b) eat them
(c) throw them in the ocean
(d) feed them to their dogs

5. What does the term the term "northing" mean?
(a) the name the Eskimoes use for themselves
(b) types of birds that don't migrate
(c) denotes traveling in a northerly direction
(d) someone who lives near the artic circle

Short Answer Questions

1. What serves as a catalyst to ready the birds for migration?

2. What is the "Principle of Indeterminacy?"

3. What does Dillard believe is destroyed in the flood?

4. What does the author believe about the difference between abundant plant life and abundant insect life?

5. What is the other type of poisonous snake besides the answer in #139, that lives around the creek area?

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