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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes most insects' behavior?
(a) imitating parents
(b) external stimuli
(c) the structure of their exoskeleton
(d) innate programming

2. Thinking about God and nature, what does Dillard come to believe is possible?
(a) God was sleeping and messed up some of nature
(b) God has created much, if not all, of creation in jest
(c) nature is a God unto itself
(d) nature has created God

3. 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) captured in nets and sedated with alcohol
(d) they are packed in soil and water

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

5. What does Dillard say is the way to tell winter has arrived?
(a) when you see the first snowfall
(b) when the creek's water has frozen
(c) when you have to make your first fire
(d) you can taste winter's arrival on the air

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Dillard illustrating in her story about the Polyphemus moth from her childhood?

2. Why do the male praying mantis come near the female?

3. What does Dillard see as a passive mystery?

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

5. Dillard believes that, with indifference, nature hides what?

(see the answer key)

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