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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Section 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do honey bees survive the cold of winter?
(a) they don't survive, honey bees die off in the winter
(b) build nest in the ground and sleep during winter
(c) go to sleep inside their honey combs
(d) cluster together in giant balls

2. How much of life which has ever been created, is living at the present time?
(a) around 45 percent
(b) about ten percent
(c) 80 percent of all life ever created still exist
(d) about half

3. How does Dillard visualize the present?
(a) as a hummingbird that stops for nectar
(b) as a wave that explodes over her head
(c) as a hawk soaring on the breeze
(d) as the middle of everything

4. When Dillard is looking at a stream, where does she look?
(a) she always looks upstream
(b) on the north bank
(c) at the water going over the rocks
(d) in the center of the water

5. Chlorophyll has a single atom of what substance in the center?
(a) carbon
(b) hydrogen
(c) zinc
(d) magnesium

Short Answer Questions

1. Dillard writes that she is an avid collector of what?

2. Fecundity could be defined as:

3. What does Dillard say is the driving force after reproduction in the animal kingdom?

4. How does Dillard see time?

5. According to Dillard, the "simple" is transformed by evolution into what?

(see the answer key)

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