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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What makes birds harder to watch than insects?
(a) there are less of them
(b) they are not often on the ground
(c) birds seem much more aware of their surroundings
(d) they fly faster

2. What is the muskrat young called?
(a) a kitten
(b) a puppy
(c) a kit
(d) a baby

3. What does Dillard see as a passive mystery?
(a) if her brother would enjoy life in Tinker Creek
(b) the mountains around her
(c) if nature is benign
(d) if there are fish in the creek

4. Why do birds sing?
(a) to praise the sun
(b) because they like to hear themselves
(c) to signal to other birds
(d) scientists really do not know why birds sing

5. The previous year, what did Hurricane Agnes do in the area?
(a) blew a tree down on top of Dillard's cabin
(b) dumped enormous amounts of rain
(c) wiped out all the flowers in the area
(d) it missed the area, so it did nothing

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why did Xerxes stop the advance of his entire army?

4. If you remove the answer in question #86 from chlorophyll, you create a molecule of what?

5. How much of life which has ever been created, is living at the present time?

(see the answer key)

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