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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the analogy she draws between the snake skin and the seasons?
(a) snakes shed skins in accordance with the seasons
(b) there is no analogy between snakes and seasons
(c) seasons are a continuous loop, just as she thought the snakeskin was
(d) snakes move depending on the season

2. What does Dillard mean when she says she's willing to sacrifice a little blood in order to be "in the thick of things?"
(a) she would fight on the front lines in any battle
(b) she'd pick up a wild animal that might bite her
(c) she'd bleed to pick a rose
(d) she would rather live life to its fullest even if it means being in danger

3. How does Dillard believe the seeking of God takes place?
(a) Singing in the shower
(b) God is in nature
(c) the seeking of God is a continuous loop, which never ends
(d) God is everywhere but the best place to seek is in church

4. After she examines the snake skin closely, what does she figure out?
(a) it was alive
(b) it was not a snake but a long, skinny lizard
(c) she realizes that the snake had turned parts of the skin inside out, making it appear as though the skin is in a knot
(d) it was not real

5. Dillard says the agnostic asks who created the universe. What does a believer ask?
(a) who is God
(b) what role does man play
(c) why am I in the universe
(d) why was the universe created

Short Answer Questions

1. What did a Russian botanist discover about locusts?

2. Dillard says there is loveliness and grace throughout creation. What is also there?

3. Dillard believes that "weather overlaps" which causes what?

4. In Chapter 5 Dillard writes about finding a snake. What appeared peculiar about the snake?

5. How did early man view locusts?

(see the answer key)

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