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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. How does the author see the violence in the natural world?
(a) as inevitable
(b) as a symbolic sacrifice
(c) as a mistake God made
(d) as something that needs changed

2. What does Dillard think is the reason for so many forms of insects?
(a) it is nature experimenting
(b) they each specialize in something
(c) insects mutate easily
(d) because they are hard to kill

3. In Chapter 9 Dillard is uneasy and hears what seems to be gunshots. What did she actually hear?
(a) a motorcycle
(b) a garbage truck backfiring
(c) firecrackers
(d) a cap gun

4. Why does Dillard believe humans are vulnerable?
(a) because humans are emotionally out of control
(b) because humans are gullible
(c) because of how easy it is for death to find them
(d) because there is a lot of violence in the world

5. Dillard says there is loveliness and grace throughout creation. What is also there?
(a) the bizarre and grotesque
(b) violence
(c) fear
(d) scarcity

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dillard believe the flood shows about nature?

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

3. When a mosquito bites a snake, what happens?

4. In Chapter 2, Dillard talks of a game she played where she would hide what?

5. What is the muskrat young called?

(see the answer key)

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