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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 is the other type of poisonous snake besides the answer in #139, that lives around the creek area?
(a) side winder
(b) coral snake
(c) timber rattler
(d) cotton mouth

2. Why did Xerxes stop the advance of his entire army?
(a) to get ready to attack the Greeks
(b) to cut a path through a dense forest
(c) to watch a beautiful sunset
(d) to meditate on the beauty of a sycamore tree

3. How were Starlings are introduced to America from Europe?
(a) they came over with a European circus
(b) they were sold as pets to a Virginian family
(c) by a man who wanted all the birds mentioned in Shakespeare to be present in America
(d) they came in on a boat from England

4. How does Dillard visualize the present?
(a) as a hawk soaring on the breeze
(b) as a hummingbird that stops for nectar
(c) as the middle of everything
(d) as a wave that explodes over her head

5. What is it about weather that Dillard believes is a phenomena worth writing about?
(a) talking about the weather is one of seven or eight phenomena worth discussing
(b) how often the modern weather predictions are wrong
(c) how often the modern weather predictions are right
(d) whether ancient people talked about the weather

Short Answer Questions

1. When a scientist disrupted pine caterpillars' food trail, what happened?

2. Why does Dillard believe humans are vulnerable?

3. In Chapter 13, Dillard spies a snake. What kind is it?

4. What does Dillard believe is healing?

5. What about the creek creates healing sounds?

(see the answer key)

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