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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) killed bugs with carbon tetrachloride and then pinned them on labeled boards
(c) watched them in the grass with a magnifying glass
(d) catch fireflies in glass jars to watch them glow

2. What does the animal in question #1 do to to get Dillard's attention?
(a) bats her leg with his paw
(b) knocks her glasses off onto the floor
(c) jumps in through the open window and climbs on Dillard's chest
(d) meows loudly

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

4. How does Dillard believe the seeking of God takes place?
(a) Singing in the shower
(b) God is everywhere but the best place to seek is in church
(c) the seeking of God is a continuous loop, which never ends
(d) God is in nature

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After she examines the snake skin closely, what does she figure out?

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

3. How are ladybugs shipped to gardeners?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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