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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) about half
(c) around 45 percent
(d) 80 percent of all life ever created still exist

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

3. Why would Dillard say some trees are like body builders?
(a) some trees are capable of splitting and lifting boulders weighing more than a ton
(b) their body is so
(c) they can hold up a lot of weight
(d) they keep adding to their limbs,

4. What is it about weather that Dillard believes is a phenomena worth writing about?
(a) how often the modern weather predictions are right
(b) whether ancient people talked about the weather
(c) talking about the weather is one of seven or eight phenomena worth discussing
(d) how often the modern weather predictions are wrong

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Dillard says that if plants had emotions, she would applaud this:

2. If you remove the answer in question #86 from chlorophyll, you create a molecule of what?

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

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

5. What does Dillard believe is healing?

(see the answer key)

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