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

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

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

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

5. 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) whether ancient people talked about the weather
(d) how often the modern weather predictions are right

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author see as an active mystery?

2. How do ladybugs hibernate?

3. Dillard believes that, with indifference, nature hides what?

4. Why are starlings hated in the Tinker Creek area?

5. How did Radford, Virginia decide to control their starling problem?

(see the answer key)

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