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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. When Dillard scrapes the outer coating from a monarch's wing, what is left?
(a) nothing, the wings are too fragile to scrape
(b) a thin, translucent membrane, crisscrossed with black lines
(c) a pale pink membrane
(d) the wings are the same color the whole way through

2. Why would Dillard say some trees are like body builders?
(a) some trees are capable of splitting and lifting boulders weighing more than a ton
(b) they can hold up a lot of weight
(c) their body is so
(d) they keep adding to their limbs,

3. When ancient Hebrews sacrificed an animal to their god, how did they use the horns?
(a) poured blood into the horns
(b) they didn't use them
(c) to strenthen the altar for a larger animal
(d) to cage the animal

4. Believing natural disasters were sent by God is an example of what?
(a) not understanding God
(b) applying a spiritual interpretation to a natural phenomenon
(c) not having a good science background
(d) having faith

5. After she examines the snake skin closely, what does she figure out?
(a) she realizes that the snake had turned parts of the skin inside out, making it appear as though the skin is in a knot
(b) it was not real
(c) it was alive
(d) it was not a snake but a long, skinny lizard

Short Answer Questions

1. Silvery eels swim to the sea after eight years of maturing in obscure creeks and rivers. What happens to them at the sea?

2. What does Dillard find out when she takes her first course in French?

3. Why are starlings hated in the Tinker Creek area?

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

5. What did the animal in question #1 often leave on Dillard's nightgown?

(see the answer key)

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