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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) shooed them out of the house before her mother could kill them
(c) catch fireflies in glass jars to watch them glow
(d) watched them in the grass with a magnifying glass

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

3. Even though she is no scientist, what did Dillard decide she will do in her valley?
(a) plant a flower garden
(b) erect a new cabin
(c) she will explore her valley and report the unmapped frontiers
(d) raise sheep

4. What does the author see as an active mystery?
(a) Tinker Creek
(b) whether it will rain that day
(c) whether there's life after death
(d) if the creek will ever get bigger

5. What did the animal in question #1 often leave on Dillard's nightgown?
(a) wet, slimy mud off his paws
(b) a dead mouse
(c) bloody, rose-shaped paw prints
(d) cat hairs

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Dillard sees so much in the natural world which seems paradoxical. Why?

5. In Chapter 3, Dillard stalks a bird along the iced over creek. What kind of bird was it?

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