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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. Fecundity could be defined as:
(a) always hungry
(b) prolific in offspring
(c) wasteful of resources
(d) a type of fat

2. Believing natural disasters were sent by God is an example of what?
(a) having faith
(b) applying a spiritual interpretation to a natural phenomenon
(c) not having a good science background
(d) not understanding God

3. How does the author see the violence in the natural world?
(a) as something that needs changed
(b) as a symbolic sacrifice
(c) as a mistake God made
(d) as inevitable

4. At a ranch, Dillard drew a horse. It wasn't a good picture. Others who lived at the ranch drew great horses. Why?
(a) they loved horses
(b) they were more artistic
(c) they had a lot of practice drawing horses
(d) they knew all the bones and muscles of a horse

5. What is the other type of poisonous snake besides the answer in #139, that lives around the creek area?
(a) cotton mouth
(b) timber rattler
(c) side winder
(d) coral snake

Short Answer Questions

1. What would Dillard term passive pursuit of animals?

2. What does the author think about fish?

3. What is Dillard illustrating in her story about the Polyphemus moth from her childhood?

4. What is figurative seeing?

5. What did a Russian botanist discover about locusts?

(see the answer key)

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