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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dillard believe is healing?
(a) white clouds in blue skies
(b) sunshine
(c) soothing music
(d) flowing water

2. What principle has lead many physicists to mysticism?
(a) the answer to question #128
(b) the answer to question 67
(c) the answer to question 44
(d) the theory of relativity

3. What does the principle of indeterminacy invalidate?
(a) that the moon causes the tides
(b) the notion of cause and effect
(c) that hummingbirds can sit still
(d) that light travels in a circle

4. What percentage of insects are parasites?
(a) five percent
(b) forty percent
(c) thirty percent
(d) ten percent

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author believe about the difference between abundant plant life and abundant insect life?

2. When Dillard becomes motionless in watching for a muskrat, what does she do?

3. How were Starlings are introduced to America from Europe?

4. What causes most insects' behavior?

5. What does Dillard believe is destroyed in the flood?

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