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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Dillard see time?
(a) as being too long when waiting
(b) as a continuous loop or an ascending spiral
(c) as an arrow through space
(d) as a maze of days

2. In Chapter 5 Dillard writes about finding a snake. What appeared peculiar about the snake?
(a) it was pure white
(b) it had two heads
(c) it was tied in a knot
(d) it had a outer and inner skin

3. Dillard says there is loveliness and grace throughout creation. What is also there?
(a) the bizarre and grotesque
(b) fear
(c) violence
(d) scarcity

4. How did early man view locusts?
(a) locusts were thought to be a plague sent by God
(b) as a plague sent by the devil
(c) as the harbringer of a natural disaster
(d) as a visitation from heaven

5. Silvery eels swim to the sea after eight years of maturing in obscure creeks and rivers. What happens to them at the sea?
(a) they have offspring and bring them back in two years
(b) they lay eggs and then go into deep water for the rest of their lives
(c) they lay their eggs and then die
(d) they mate with other eels then return to the fresh water

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Dillard believe the seeking of God takes place?

2. After she examines the snake skin closely, what does she figure out?

3. What is the analogy she draws between the snake skin and the seasons?

4. Dillard says the agnostic asks who created the universe. What does a believer ask?

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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