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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How were Starlings are introduced to America from Europe?
(a) they came over with a European circus
(b) by a man who wanted all the birds mentioned in Shakespeare to be present in America
(c) they came in on a boat from England
(d) they were sold as pets to a Virginian family

2. How did Radford, Virginia decide to control their starling problem?
(a) bringing in a population of Maine bird cats
(b) putting out poisoned seed
(c) by spraying them with foam, so they would die of exposure
(d) enclosing large nets around their area

3. She claims the ability to see what is hidden is what?
(a) a gift
(b) a piece of luck
(c) a special talent
(d) fate

4. 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 ants attacked a lady bug
(c) when she watched sharks tear into a school of fish
(d) when a thunderstorm blew down a tree

5. How do ladybugs hibernate?
(a) ladybugs hibernate under the roots of trees
(b) ladybugs die off in winter
(c) ladybugs hide beneath the bark on trees
(d) ladybugs hibernate in large masses

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When a scientist disrupted pine caterpillars' food trail, what happened?

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

4. Why did Indians used grooved arrows?

5. In Chapter 3, Dillard stalks a bird along the iced over creek. What kind of bird was it?

(see the answer key)

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