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

2. 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 had a lot of practice drawing horses
(c) they were more artistic
(d) they knew all the bones and muscles of a horse

3. Dillard believes that, with indifference, nature hides what?
(a) wonders from the eye
(b) butterflies
(c) the agony of prey and hunter
(d) waterfalls

4. Dillard sees so much in the natural world which seems paradoxical. Why?
(a) because the same plant could heal you or kill you
(b) because half the day had sun, half did not
(c) she saw beauty side by side with horrors
(d) because large trees would block the sun from smaller ones

5. How do honey bees survive the cold of winter?
(a) cluster together in giant balls
(b) go to sleep inside their honey combs
(c) build nest in the ground and sleep during winter
(d) they don't survive, honey bees die off in the winter

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the literal act of seeing?

2. How do mice reach the grain at the top of a stalk?

3. How are ladybugs shipped to gardeners?

4. Dillard thought once that awesome artistry can be laced with savagery. To what did she refer?

5. What is one of Dillard's main occupations in the winter?

(see the answer key)

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