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

2. What does Dillard say about the muskrat fur?
(a) it's smelly when wet
(b) they are the most popular fur animal in North America
(c) it's thin and of little use
(d) it tends to be spotty

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

4. What does Dillard say happens the moment you are aware of the present?
(a) you lose it
(b) it no longer matters
(c) it freezes
(d) it becomes the past

5. If you could watch the unfolding through time of every thing that ever existed on Earth, what does Dillard say you would see?
(a) an endless tempest of beauty
(b) destruction and fear
(c) joy
(d) upheaval and violence

Short Answer Questions

1. How much of life which has ever been created, is living at the present time?

2. When ancient Hebrews sacrificed an animal to their god, how did they use the horns?

3. Dillard says the agnostic asks who created the universe. What does a believer ask?

4. What does Dillard believe about nature and change?

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

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