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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. In Chapter 2, Dillard talks of a game she played where she would hide what?
(a) Easter eggs
(b) dimes and quarters
(c) Raggedy Ann dolls
(d) pennies

2. What does she realize is the best way to quiet her mind?
(a) taking a sleeping pill
(b) counting from 100 to zero backwards
(c) by offering a nonchalant nod to the presence of words in the head
(d) sitting quietly and breathing deeply

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

4. What did Dillard do at one time about insects as a child?
(a) watched them in the grass with a magnifying glass
(b) shooed them out of the house before her mother could kill them
(c) catch fireflies in glass jars to watch them glow
(d) killed bugs with carbon tetrachloride and then pinned them on labeled boards

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is it about weather that Dillard believes is a phenomena worth writing about?

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

3. What does Dillard say can be as blinding as complete darkness?

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

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

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