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

2. Dillard writes that she is an avid collector of what?
(a) feathers
(b) strange insects
(c) facts and ideas
(d) snake skins

3. What do the Eskimos do with the greens in their prey's stomach?
(a) they never look in the stomach
(b) throw them in the ocean
(c) feed them to their dogs
(d) eat them

4. When Dillard is looking at a stream, where does she look?
(a) she always looks upstream
(b) on the north bank
(c) in the center of the water
(d) at the water going over the rocks

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes birds harder to watch than insects?

2. How does Dillard see time?

3. What did a Russian botanist discover about locusts?

4. What does Dillard suggest spring is about?

5. How does the author see the violence in the natural world?

(see the answer key)

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