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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 does Dillard say about the muskrat fur?
(a) they are the most popular fur animal in North America
(b) it tends to be spotty
(c) it's smelly when wet
(d) it's thin and of little use

2. What did Dillard do at one time about insects as a child?
(a) catch fireflies in glass jars to watch them glow
(b) watched them in the grass with a magnifying glass
(c) killed bugs with carbon tetrachloride and then pinned them on labeled boards
(d) shooed them out of the house before her mother could kill them

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

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

5. What does Dillard find out when she takes her first course in French?
(a) she realizes that she will have to learn French word by word
(b) it's more difficult than Spanish
(c) she has no aptitude for languages
(d) French sounds better than English

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of Dillard's main occupations in the winter?

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

3. Why do birds sing?

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

5. In Alaska and northern Canada during winter what is a topic of continual fascination?

(see the answer key)

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