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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Dillard do at one time about insects as a child?
(a) killed bugs with carbon tetrachloride and then pinned them on labeled boards
(b) watched them in the grass with a magnifying glass
(c) catch fireflies in glass jars to watch them glow
(d) shooed them out of the house before her mother could kill them

2. What is the literal act of seeing?
(a) learning how to spot the different wildlife
(b) watching for movement in the clouds
(c) using binoculars to see a great distance
(d) opening the eyes and looking straight ahead

3. Why are starlings hated in the Tinker Creek area?
(a) they are smelly, messy, and noisy
(b) they eat all the worms and leave the ground bare
(c) they fly into houses and make nests
(d) they scare the children by flying around them

4. Why did Indians used grooved arrows?
(a) the hunter could follow the trail of blood that flows down the groove
(b) so they would fly farther
(c) so they were lighter to carry around
(d) it made them more accurate

5. How do ladybugs hibernate?
(a) ladybugs die off in winter
(b) ladybugs hibernate in large masses
(c) ladybugs hibernate under the roots of trees
(d) ladybugs hide beneath the bark on trees

Short Answer Questions

1. What is it about weather that Dillard believes is a phenomena worth writing about?

2. How does Dillard think of Tinker Creek in the first chapter?

3. In Chapter 2, Dillard talks of a game she played where she would hide what?

4. Even though she is no scientist, what did Dillard decide she will do in her valley?

5. Why did Dillard name this chapter "Seeing?"

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