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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 the term the term "northing" mean?
(a) types of birds that don't migrate
(b) denotes traveling in a northerly direction
(c) the name the Eskimoes use for themselves
(d) someone who lives near the artic circle

2. What is the muskrat young called?
(a) a kitten
(b) a kit
(c) a baby
(d) a puppy

3. Dillard is sometimes allowed one brief glimpse of a creature. What does she call these glimpses?
(a) pure good luck
(b) her destiny
(c) an act of fate
(d) a gift of abundance

4. In addition to form and texture, what does the author believe influences beauty?
(a) time of day
(b) color
(c) perception
(d) time

5. What is figurative seeing?
(a) seeing in dreams
(b) watching the invisible
(c) seeing with the inner eye and looking beyond outward appearances
(d) closing the eyes and seeing another world

Short Answer Questions

1. What is it about weather that Dillard believes is a phenomena worth writing about?

2. If you could watch the unfolding through time of every thing that ever existed on Earth, what does Dillard say you would see?

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

4. Dillard sees so much in the natural world which seems paradoxical. Why?

5. What does Dillard see as the difference between a parasite and a predator?

(see the answer key)

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