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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. What does Dillard say about humans and change?
(a) humans abhor statis
(b) humans believe change is necessary
(c) humans hate change
(d) humans believe stability if good

2. How do praying mantises mate?
(a) the female lays eggs and the male comes by and fertilizes them
(b) they mate like people
(c) A female will mate and devour up to seven male mantises
(d) the male kills the female when done and takes over the eggs

3. In Chapter 3, Dillard stalks a bird along the iced over creek. What kind of bird was it?
(a) coot
(b) duck
(c) blue jay
(d) robin

4. She claims the ability to see what is hidden is what?
(a) a special talent
(b) a gift
(c) a piece of luck
(d) fate

5. When Dillard is looking at a stream, where does she look?
(a) she always looks upstream
(b) on the north bank
(c) in the center of the water
(d) at the water going over the rocks

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dillard find out when she takes her first course in French?

2. How does the author say one can obtain "unself-conscious state?"

3. What is the analogy she draws between the snake skin and the seasons?

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

5. Why does Dillard believe humans are vulnerable?

(see the answer key)

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