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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 13, Dillard is still obsessed about nature. In what way?
(a) about humans destroying nature
(b) about the beauty of an oak leaf
(c) against the seeming cruelty of nature
(d) about the rain and the sound of water

2. How large might a root system for winter rye grass plant grow?
(a) 65 miles of roots and 2,000 miles of root hairs
(b) one root that grows straight down for 100 yards
(c) 378 miles of roots and 6,000 miles of root hairs
(d) a shallow system above ground spread for 15 acres

3. What does Dillard believe is destroyed in the flood?
(a) the plankton
(b) a beaver's dam
(c) the creek bed
(d) the bee hives in the field

4. After the butterflies finally leave, how does the sky seem to the author?
(a) like normal
(b) big and never ending
(c) empty
(d) barren of color

5. What does Dillard say is the driving force after reproduction in the animal kingdom?
(a) having a nice place to live
(b) knowing God
(c) protecting the young
(d) finding food

6. The development of science leads to what, according to the author?
(a) mysticism
(b) technological advances
(c) new healing techniques
(d) a car that doesn't pollute

7. What is the other type of poisonous snake besides the answer in #139, that lives around the creek area?
(a) coral snake
(b) cotton mouth
(c) side winder
(d) timber rattler

8. What could happen if the caribou migrate out of the Eskimo's range?
(a) the polar bears will follow the herds
(b) the Eskimos won't have enough fur for coats
(c) they won't get culled and will overpopulate
(d) remote Eskimo tribes can starve

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

10. What does Dillard believe about the death of the self?
(a) it would take a lifetime
(b) it is a part of life
(c) it is a type of transformation
(d) it is painless

11. In Chapter 13, Dillard spies a snake. What kind is it?
(a) a coral snake
(b) a brown water snake
(c) a copperhead
(d) a black snake

12. For wild animals, Dillards sees enduring parasitic invasions as what?
(a) a way for animals to die
(b) the cost of life
(c) something deadly
(d) as a blessing

13. In Chapter 14, Dillard quotes a fifth century Egyptian mystic as saying what?
(a) meditate outside and you will know the outside
(b) winter gives rest, as spring energy
(c) go and sit in your cell, and your cell will teach you everything
(d) fall is the splash of color before the white of winter

14. In Chapter 13, Dillard quotes Van Gogh. What did she quote?
(a) life is not art
(b) life is not pretty
(c) it's important to see
(d) the important thing is to breathe

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Dillard comes upon a rooting acorn, she imagines what?

2. Why would Dillard say some trees are like body builders?

3. How does the author see the violence in the natural world?

4. What does the author see as somewhat synonymous with the creator, or God?

5. What do the Eskimos do with the greens in their prey's stomach?

(see the answer keys)

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