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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. How do honey bees survive the cold of winter?
(a) go to sleep inside their honey combs
(b) cluster together in giant balls
(c) build nest in the ground and sleep during winter
(d) they don't survive, honey bees die off in the winter

2. How does Dillard see time?
(a) as a continuous loop or an ascending spiral
(b) as being too long when waiting
(c) as an arrow through space
(d) as a maze of days

3. Dillard sees so much in the natural world which seems paradoxical. Why?
(a) she saw beauty side by side with horrors
(b) because large trees would block the sun from smaller ones
(c) because half the day had sun, half did not
(d) because the same plant could heal you or kill you

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

5. Why do the male praying mantis come near the female?
(a) the female is bigger and stronger and makes him
(b) he has a chemical in his abdomen that encourages him
(c) the male is born to be the mate of a certain femal
(d) the females have a long, whip-like appendage that grabs the male

Short Answer Questions

1. What lures birds of all species out of their summer hiding places?

2. What is the other type of poisonous snake besides the answer in #139, that lives around the creek area?

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

4. What does she realize is the best way to quiet her mind?

5. When Dillard scrapes the outer coating from a monarch's wing, what is left?

(see the answer key)

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