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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Section 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do honey bees survive the cold of winter?
(a) go to sleep inside their honey combs
(b) cluster together in giant balls
(c) build nest in the ground and sleep during winter
(d) they don't survive, honey bees die off in the winter

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

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

4. What does the author say the future is?
(a) a wind coming from the east
(b) a cricket's song on a sultry night
(c) baby birds who have just hatched
(d) light on the water and a spirit

5. What is it about weather that Dillard believes is a phenomena worth writing about?
(a) how often the modern weather predictions are right
(b) talking about the weather is one of seven or eight phenomena worth discussing
(c) how often the modern weather predictions are wrong
(d) whether ancient people talked about the weather

Short Answer Questions

1. Dillard thought once that awesome artistry can be laced with savagery. To what did she refer?

2. Why does the author think nature experiments with insects' shape, form and "niche?"

3. What did Dillard do at one time about insects as a child?

4. What about the creek creates healing sounds?

5. One branch of Jewish philosophy believes that part of the responsibility of humans is to do what?

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