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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 sport does the author play come spring?
(a) golf
(b) softball
(c) tennis
(d) basketball

2. At a ranch, Dillard drew a horse. It wasn't a good picture. Others who lived at the ranch drew great horses. Why?
(a) they loved horses
(b) they had a lot of practice drawing horses
(c) they knew all the bones and muscles of a horse
(d) they were more artistic

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

4. Dillard says that if plants had emotions, she would applaud this:
(a) their willingness to live in harmony
(b) their ability to tolerate other life forms
(c) their ability to fly in the teeth of it all
(d) their kindness

5. Thinking about God and nature, what does Dillard come to believe is possible?
(a) God has created much, if not all, of creation in jest
(b) nature is a God unto itself
(c) God was sleeping and messed up some of nature
(d) nature has created God

Short Answer Questions

1. Dillard wrote, "the present is fleet." What did she mean by this statement?

2. Why do the male praying mantis come near the female?

3. What does the author think about fish?

4. According to Dillard, the "simple" is transformed by evolution into what?

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

(see the answer key)

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