View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Dillard see time?
(a) as being too long when waiting
(b) as a maze of days
(c) as a continuous loop or an ascending spiral
(d) as an arrow through space

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 5 Dillard writes about finding a snake. What appeared peculiar about the snake?

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

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

4. In Chapter 2, Dillard talks of a game she played where she would hide what?

5. What changes about the view around Dillard's home when winter comes?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 364 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample