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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 does Dillard say is the way to tell winter has arrived?
(a) when the creek's water has frozen
(b) when you have to make your first fire
(c) you can taste winter's arrival on the air
(d) when you see the first snowfall

2. What does Dillard see as a passive mystery?
(a) if nature is benign
(b) the mountains around her
(c) if there are fish in the creek
(d) if her brother would enjoy life in Tinker Creek

3. Why did Dillard name this chapter "Seeing?"
(a) because she discusses the loss of sight
(b) because she believes to see she has to understand
(c) she knows that to discover and understand she must be able to see
(d) because she has found out some blind people regain their sight

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do ladybugs hibernate?

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

3. What is figurative seeing?

4. Why did Indians used grooved arrows?

5. How were Starlings are introduced to America from Europe?

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