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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. What is the muskrat young called?
(a) a puppy
(b) a kitten
(c) a baby
(d) a kit

2. The balance enables her to think about the beauty without doing what?
(a) wanting to move to a large city and never be in nature again
(b) making all of nature good
(c) making all of nature bad
(d) constantly remember the aspects of nature which she finds ugly

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

4. How does a young muskrat get fed?
(a) it eats birds eggs
(b) it gets plankton fromt he water
(c) the mother brings it mouthfuls of grass
(d) it eats small insects

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

Short Answer Questions

1. She claims the ability to see what is hidden is what?

2. In Chapter 13, Dillard spies a snake. What kind is it?

3. In Chapter 3, Dillard stalks a bird along the iced over creek. What kind of bird was it?

4. What does Dillard say hinders people from experiencing the now?

5. Dillard says there is loveliness and grace throughout creation. What is also there?

(see the answer key)

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