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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 10, what does Dillard see as making life easier?
(a) staying in a state of denial
(b) a lot of money
(c) accepting that everything dies
(d) living in the city

2. What percentage of insects are parasites?
(a) thirty percent
(b) five percent
(c) forty percent
(d) ten percent

3. What does Dillard believe the flood shows about nature?
(a) the effusiveness of creation
(b) nature can't be controlled
(c) it's destructive
(d) nature doesn't like humans

4. When a mosquito bites a snake, what happens?
(a) nothing, mosquitoes feed on snakes
(b) the mosquito dies from the snake blood
(c) mosquitoes carry snake blood to other animals
(d) the mosquito lays its eggs under the scales

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

6. What principle has lead many physicists to mysticism?
(a) the answer to question 67
(b) the answer to question 44
(c) the theory of relativity
(d) the answer to question #128

7. How did early man view locusts?
(a) locusts were thought to be a plague sent by God
(b) as the harbringer of a natural disaster
(c) as a visitation from heaven
(d) as a plague sent by the devil

8. What would Dillard suggest for food instead of creature eating creature?
(a) bread and water
(b) everyone being vegetarians
(c) manna
(d) no one needing food at all

9. When Dillard becomes motionless in watching for a muskrat, what does she do?
(a) she sits
(b) she breaths deep
(c) she calms herself and sinks down into her center
(d) she holds her breath

10. Silvery eels swim to the sea after eight years of maturing in obscure creeks and rivers. What happens to them at the sea?
(a) they have offspring and bring them back in two years
(b) they lay their eggs and then die
(c) they mate with other eels then return to the fresh water
(d) they lay eggs and then go into deep water for the rest of their lives

11. Dillard believes that few humans have been as cruel as what, in the natural world?
(a) hurricanes which kill plants and animals
(b) sharks that will eat almost anything
(c) the female preying mantis
(d) bugs who eat their prey live

12. When moving towards a muskrat, how does one keep from scaring it?
(a) walk in the water
(b) lay down and crawl on your belly
(c) move when the muskrat's head is turned away from your direction
(d) sit still and hold your breath

13. Ultimately, at the end of the book, what is Dillard's overwhelming feeling?
(a) puzzlement
(b) depression
(c) anger
(d) joy

14. What does Dillard think the butterflies smell like?
(a) honeysuckle
(b) fall leaves
(c) Tinker Creek
(d) snow

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does a young muskrat get fed?

2. For wild animals, Dillards sees enduring parasitic invasions as what?

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

4. Believing natural disasters were sent by God is an example of what?

5. What does the principle of indeterminacy invalidate?

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