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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are starlings hated in the Tinker Creek area?
(a) they fly into houses and make nests
(b) they eat all the worms and leave the ground bare
(c) they are smelly, messy, and noisy
(d) they scare the children by flying around them

2. Dillard thought once that awesome artistry can be laced with savagery. To what did she refer?
(a) when her tomcat bit the head off a mouse
(b) when a thunderstorm blew down a tree
(c) when she watched sharks tear into a school of fish
(d) when ants attacked a lady bug

3. In Chapter 5 Dillard writes about finding a snake. What appeared peculiar about the snake?
(a) it was pure white
(b) it was tied in a knot
(c) it had two heads
(d) it had a outer and inner skin

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

5. What is the analogy she draws between the snake skin and the seasons?
(a) seasons are a continuous loop, just as she thought the snakeskin was
(b) there is no analogy between snakes and seasons
(c) snakes move depending on the season
(d) snakes shed skins in accordance with the seasons

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is figurative seeing?

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

4. Dillard believes that "weather overlaps" which causes what?

5. Where does Dillard makes a pilgrimage to every month?

(see the answer key)

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