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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are ladybugs shipped to gardeners?
(a) the hibernating bugs are packed in boxes of pine cones
(b) they are shipped in the spring, the nests are shipped in one piece
(c) they are packed in soil and water
(d) captured in nets and sedated with alcohol

2. How do blind people who suddenly gain sight usually see objects at first?
(a) as patches of colored light
(b) as black and white
(c) as bigger than they really are
(d) as all gray

3. What did the animal in question #1 often leave on Dillard's nightgown?
(a) bloody, rose-shaped paw prints
(b) cat hairs
(c) a dead mouse
(d) wet, slimy mud off his paws

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

5. What is Dillard illustrating in her story about the Polyphemus moth from her childhood?
(a) she has a good memory
(b) the indifference humans often exhibit towards the natural world
(c) moths have to spread their weeks when born
(d) kids are cruel

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes most insects' behavior?

2. Dillard sees so much in the natural world which seems paradoxical. Why?

3. Why did Indians used grooved arrows?

4. Thinking about God and nature, what does Dillard come to believe is possible?

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

(see the answer key)

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