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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 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

2. What does Dillard believe is healing?
(a) white clouds in blue skies
(b) flowing water
(c) soothing music
(d) sunshine

3. How do ladybugs hibernate?
(a) ladybugs die off in winter
(b) ladybugs hibernate under the roots of trees
(c) ladybugs hide beneath the bark on trees
(d) ladybugs hibernate in large masses

4. Dillard says that if plants had emotions, she would applaud this:
(a) their ability to tolerate other life forms
(b) their willingness to live in harmony
(c) their ability to fly in the teeth of it all
(d) their kindness

5. According to Dillard, how is the past healed?
(a) if one stays in the present, the past is healed
(b) by ignoring it
(c) by meditating on forgiveness
(d) by focusing on the future

Short Answer Questions

1. What is it about weather that Dillard believes is a phenomena worth writing about?

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

3. How does Dillard see time?

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

5. What does the author say the future is?

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