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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 say can be as blinding as complete darkness?
(a) some camp lanterns
(b) a full moon at midnight
(c) a mind that is closed
(d) too much light

2. When Dillard is looking at a stream, where does she look?
(a) she always looks upstream
(b) at the water going over the rocks
(c) in the center of the water
(d) on the north bank

3. What do the Eskimos do with the greens in their prey's stomach?
(a) eat them
(b) feed them to their dogs
(c) throw them in the ocean
(d) they never look in the stomach

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. If you remove the answer in question #86 from chlorophyll, you create a molecule of what?

3. In Chapter 9 Dillard is uneasy and hears what seems to be gunshots. What did she actually hear?

4. Dillard says that if plants had emotions, she would applaud this:

5. In Chapter 7 who gravitates towards the circle on the bottom of Dillard's fishbowl?

(see the answer key)

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