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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. What does Dillard think is the reason for so many forms of insects?
(a) they each specialize in something
(b) because they are hard to kill
(c) insects mutate easily
(d) it is nature experimenting

3. How does Dillard think of Tinker Creek in the first chapter?
(a) as an anchor that keeps her steady in the current of life
(b) as a place that time forgot
(c) that she'd rather live somewhere else
(d) as a scary, mysterious place

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

5. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do praying mantises mate?

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

3. How do ladybugs hibernate?

4. What does Dillard say about humans and change?

5. How do blind people who suddenly gain sight usually see objects at first?

(see the answer key)

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