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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. What does Dillard say is the driving force after reproduction in the animal kingdom?
(a) finding food
(b) having a nice place to live
(c) knowing God
(d) protecting the young

2. Fecundity could be defined as:
(a) a type of fat
(b) prolific in offspring
(c) wasteful of resources
(d) always hungry

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

4. What did Dillard do at one time about insects as a child?
(a) catch fireflies in glass jars to watch them glow
(b) watched them in the grass with a magnifying glass
(c) shooed them out of the house before her mother could kill them
(d) killed bugs with carbon tetrachloride and then pinned them on labeled boards

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author say the future is?

2. How large might a root system for winter rye grass plant grow?

3. What does Dillard believe is healing?

4. What about the creek creates healing sounds?

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

(see the answer key)

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