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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) talking about the weather is one of seven or eight phenomena worth discussing
(c) how often the modern weather predictions are right
(d) whether ancient people talked about the weather

2. How are ladybugs shipped to gardeners?
(a) the hibernating bugs are packed in boxes of pine cones
(b) captured in nets and sedated with alcohol
(c) they are packed in soil and water
(d) they are shipped in the spring, the nests are shipped in one piece

3. What is figurative seeing?
(a) seeing in dreams
(b) closing the eyes and seeing another world
(c) watching the invisible
(d) seeing with the inner eye and looking beyond outward appearances

4. Thinking about God and nature, what does Dillard come to believe is possible?
(a) nature has created God
(b) God has created much, if not all, of creation in jest
(c) God was sleeping and messed up some of nature
(d) nature is a God unto itself

5. What is one of Dillard's main occupations in the winter?
(a) reading
(b) sewing
(c) knitting
(d) watching television

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the animal in question #1 do to to get Dillard's attention?

3. What does Dillard say is the way to tell winter has arrived?

4. What did Dillard do at one time about insects as a child?

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

(see the answer key)

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