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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dillard say about humans and change?
(a) humans believe change is necessary
(b) humans abhor statis
(c) humans hate change
(d) humans believe stability if good

2. In Chapter 3, Dillard stalks a bird along the iced over creek. What kind of bird was it?
(a) blue jay
(b) duck
(c) robin
(d) coot

3. Dillard believes that, with indifference, nature hides what?
(a) wonders from the eye
(b) the agony of prey and hunter
(c) waterfalls
(d) butterflies

4. Where does Dillard makes a pilgrimage to every month?
(a) to visit her mother in another state
(b) the small town a few miles away
(c) the the local church
(d) the island that bisects Tinker Creek

5. After she examines the snake skin closely, what does she figure out?
(a) it was not real
(b) it was alive
(c) it was not a snake but a long, skinny lizard
(d) she realizes that the snake had turned parts of the skin inside out, making it appear as though the skin is in a knot

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How do ladybugs hibernate?

4. How are ladybugs shipped to gardeners?

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

(see the answer key)

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