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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Dillard see time?
(a) as an arrow through space
(b) as a continuous loop or an ascending spiral
(c) as a maze of days
(d) as being too long when waiting

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

3. How long does it take a tree to recreate ninety-nine percent of its living parts?
(a) a lifetime
(b) one year
(c) twenty-five years
(d) thirty days

4. What does Dillard say happens the moment you are aware of the present?
(a) it freezes
(b) you lose it
(c) it becomes the past
(d) it no longer matters

5. In Chapter 2, Dillard talks of a game she played where she would hide what?
(a) Easter eggs
(b) dimes and quarters
(c) Raggedy Ann dolls
(d) pennies

Short Answer Questions

1. Even though she is no scientist, what did Dillard decide she will do in her valley?

2. What about the creek creates healing sounds?

3. Why did Dillard name this chapter "Seeing?"

4. What does the author believe separates humans from their creator and humans from each other?

5. Dillard opens this first chapter remembering this animal.

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