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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the literal act of seeing?
(a) opening the eyes and looking straight ahead
(b) watching for movement in the clouds
(c) using binoculars to see a great distance
(d) learning how to spot the different wildlife

2. If you remove the answer in question #86 from chlorophyll, you create a molecule of what?
(a) hemoglobin
(b) carbon dioxide
(c) water
(d) chlorine gas

3. When Dillard moves from describing details of creation to trying to understand more about creation what is she doing?
(a) getting a little strange
(b) moving from logic to mysticism
(c) trying to think too much
(d) moving from what to why

4. What did the animal in question #1 often leave on Dillard's nightgown?
(a) wet, slimy mud off his paws
(b) cat hairs
(c) bloody, rose-shaped paw prints
(d) a dead mouse

5. How long does it take a tree to recreate ninety-nine percent of its living parts?
(a) twenty-five years
(b) one year
(c) thirty days
(d) a lifetime

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

7. According to Dillard, how is the past healed?
(a) if one stays in the present, the past is healed
(b) by meditating on forgiveness
(c) by ignoring it
(d) by focusing on the future

8. Why did Indians used grooved arrows?
(a) so they would fly farther
(b) the hunter could follow the trail of blood that flows down the groove
(c) so they were lighter to carry around
(d) it made them more accurate

9. Dillard believes that "weather overlaps" which causes what?
(a) sun shining when it's raining
(b) snow on Easter
(c) there is only a few weeks of any season that is distinguishable from the former or following
(d) rain in the backyard and sun in the front yard

10. How were Starlings are introduced to America from Europe?
(a) they came over with a European circus
(b) they were sold as pets to a Virginian family
(c) by a man who wanted all the birds mentioned in Shakespeare to be present in America
(d) they came in on a boat from England

11. How does the author say one can obtain "unself-conscious state?"
(a) through meditation
(b) through intense exercise
(c) through desperate illness
(d) pure devotion to whatever one is doing at the moment

12. When Dillard raps on the goldfish bowl, what does the fish do?
(a) dive to the bottom
(b) stays perfectly still for ten seconds
(c) swim to the surface
(d) swims around the bowl three times

13. In Chapter 4 what does Dillard use for controlling garden insects?
(a) bats
(b) frogs
(c) ladybugs
(d) praying mantises

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author believe separates humans from their creator and humans from each other?

2. What does Dillard's fascination and stories about praying mantises demonstrate?

3. Why did early Eskimos love winter?

4. What does the animal in question #1 do to to get Dillard's attention?

5. If there were only one tree in the world, what would happen, according to the author?

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