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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14, Section 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dillard suggest spring is about?
(a) faith
(b) potential
(c) flowers blooming
(d) plants growing

2. When a scientist disrupted pine caterpillars' food trail, what happened?
(a) the caterpillars could not restart a new trail
(b) half of caterpillars made a new trail off to the right
(c) they stopped, and stayed still until they died
(d) they turned around and followed their trail back home

3. In Chapter 14, what have arrived in swarm from the Hudson Bay area?
(a) house wrens
(b) sparrows
(c) lunar moths
(d) monarch butterflies

4. The balance enables her to think about the beauty without doing what?
(a) making all of nature bad
(b) constantly remember the aspects of nature which she finds ugly
(c) making all of nature good
(d) wanting to move to a large city and never be in nature again

5. Why do birds sing?
(a) scientists really do not know why birds sing
(b) because they like to hear themselves
(c) to signal to other birds
(d) to praise the sun

Short Answer Questions

1. What serves as a catalyst to ready the birds for migration?

2. What is Dillard illustrating in her story about the Polyphemus moth from her childhood?

3. What does Dillard say hinders people from experiencing the now?

4. How did early man view locusts?

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

(see the answer key)

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