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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. Why are starlings hated in the Tinker Creek area?
(a) they are smelly, messy, and noisy
(b) they eat all the worms and leave the ground bare
(c) they fly into houses and make nests
(d) they scare the children by flying around them

2. How do ladybugs hibernate?
(a) ladybugs hibernate under the roots of trees
(b) ladybugs hide beneath the bark on trees
(c) ladybugs die off in winter
(d) ladybugs hibernate in large masses

3. How does the author say one can obtain "unself-conscious state?"
(a) through meditation
(b) pure devotion to whatever one is doing at the moment
(c) through desperate illness
(d) through intense exercise

4. How were Starlings are introduced to America from Europe?
(a) they came over with a European circus
(b) by a man who wanted all the birds mentioned in Shakespeare to be present in America
(c) they were sold as pets to a Virginian family
(d) they came in on a boat from England

5. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the literal act of seeing?

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

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

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

5. How does Dillard think of Tinker Creek in the first chapter?

(see the answer key)

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