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

3. How do mice reach the grain at the top of a stalk?
(a) they wait for the farmer to cut the field
(b) mice chew wheat stems piece by piece
(c) they climb a tree and jump onto the stalk
(d) they climb the stalk on the back of other mice

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

5. Dillard opens this first chapter remembering this animal.
(a) a robin whose nest fell from the tree
(b) a poodle that lived down the street from her
(c) an alligator she saw in the zoo
(d) an old tomcat that she used to have

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What did the animal in question #1 often leave on Dillard's nightgown?

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

5. She claims the ability to see what is hidden is what?

(see the answer key)

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