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

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

3. In Chapter 3, Dillard stalks a bird along the iced over creek. What kind of bird was it?
(a) blue jay
(b) robin
(c) duck
(d) coot

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do honey bees survive the cold of winter?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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