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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, Section 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do praying mantises mate?
(a) A female will mate and devour up to seven male mantises
(b) they mate like people
(c) the male kills the female when done and takes over the eggs
(d) the female lays eggs and the male comes by and fertilizes them

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

3. Dillard wrote, "the present is fleet." What did she mean by this statement?
(a) the present is the future
(b) the present goes by so quick one can barely glimpse it
(c) the present is like a group of ships
(d) there is no present

4. What did a Russian botanist discover about locusts?
(a) locusts are merely grasshoppers under stress
(b) locusts have too many babies
(c) locusts breed in the water
(d) locusts will eat other insects

5. Generally, what will praying mantises eat?
(a) they eat tree roots
(b) they will eat the leaves off of trees
(c) they will eat anything small enough for it to capture - even tiny garter snakes
(d) they eat flower petals

Short Answer Questions

1. Fecundity could be defined as:

2. How do mice reach the grain at the top of a stalk?

3. Dillard says that a particular object remains unseen until what happens?

4. How long does it take a tree to recreate ninety-nine percent of its living parts?

5. What does the author believe separates humans from their creator and humans from each other?

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