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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Dillard think gravitates towards the field of botany?
(a) people who were raised in rural areas
(b) no one in particular
(c) truly ethical thinkers
(d) those who don't like people

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

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

4. In Chapter 2, Dillard talks of a game she played where she would hide what?
(a) Easter eggs
(b) pennies
(c) dimes and quarters
(d) Raggedy Ann dolls

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

6. What does Dillard say about humans and change?
(a) humans believe change is necessary
(b) humans abhor statis
(c) humans believe stability if good
(d) humans hate change

7. What causes most insects' behavior?
(a) the structure of their exoskeleton
(b) innate programming
(c) external stimuli
(d) imitating parents

8. In Chapter 3, Dillard stalks a bird along the iced over creek. What kind of bird was it?
(a) blue jay
(b) robin
(c) coot
(d) duck

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

10. Why did early Eskimos love winter?
(a) it is a time to use their sleds to visit other Eskimos
(b) they like to celebrate winter soltice
(c) the whales are closer to shore
(d) the seals are easier to kill

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

12. How did Radford, Virginia decide to control their starling problem?
(a) putting out poisoned seed
(b) by spraying them with foam, so they would die of exposure
(c) bringing in a population of Maine bird cats
(d) enclosing large nets around their area

13. Where does Dillard makes a pilgrimage to every month?
(a) to visit her mother in another state
(b) the island that bisects Tinker Creek
(c) the small town a few miles away
(d) the the local church

14. What changes about the view around Dillard's home when winter comes?
(a) the snow covered trees block her view of the creek
(b) the view looks stark and empty
(c) winter opens vistas around Dillard's home so she can see other homes
(d) nothing changes about the view

15. Dillard believes that, with indifference, nature hides what?
(a) butterflies
(b) waterfalls
(c) the agony of prey and hunter
(d) wonders from the eye

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dillard say is the way to tell winter has arrived?

2. Even though she is no scientist, what did Dillard decide she will do in her valley?

3. Dillard opens this first chapter remembering this animal.

4. How are Eskimos able to survive in such a harsh environment as theirs?

5. Dillard writes that she is an avid collector of what?

(see the answer keys)

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