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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 mice reach the grain at the top of a stalk?
(a) mice chew wheat stems piece by piece
(b) they climb the stalk on the back of other mice
(c) they climb a tree and jump onto the stalk
(d) they wait for the farmer to cut the field

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

3. What does Dillard say happens the moment you are aware of the present?
(a) it becomes the past
(b) you lose it
(c) it no longer matters
(d) it freezes

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author say one can obtain "unself-conscious state?"

2. What does Dillard's fascination and stories about praying mantises demonstrate?

3. In Chapter 13, the author is beginning to find a balance in her thinking about nature. What is that balance?

4. What are the "horns of the altar?"

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

(see the answer key)

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