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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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

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

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

5. When Dillard discovers so much violence and horror in the natural world, how does she feel?
(a) disillusioned as to the goodness of creation and the creator
(b) confused because it seems contradictory to logic
(c) relieved that insects are killed in such large numbers
(d) depressed that the world was created so

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

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

8. What is the muskrat young called?
(a) a kit
(b) a baby
(c) a puppy
(d) a kitten

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

10. The previous year, what did Hurricane Agnes do in the area?
(a) wiped out all the flowers in the area
(b) blew a tree down on top of Dillard's cabin
(c) dumped enormous amounts of rain
(d) it missed the area, so it did nothing

11. What serves as a catalyst to ready the birds for migration?
(a) catepillers making cocoons
(b) the leaves turning colors
(c) the fall air
(d) lack of flowers in the landscape

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

13. What does the author think about fish?
(a) they are rather dumb water inhabitants
(b) they are quiet animals
(c) they are spirit food
(d) they are fairly clean food

14. What is necessary in order for the the gooseneck barnacle to reproduce?
(a) it must find a wrecked ship not more than one-half mile down
(b) it must find any piece of debris to cling to in the middle of the ocean
(c) it must find water of an exact salinity
(d) it must find a certain type of seaweed to cling to

15. How did the Romans use the horns of the altar?
(a) to kill geese with
(b) they'd grasp the horns and swear by them
(c) used to move the altar
(d) to tie their goats to which worshipping

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 13, Dillard is still obsessed about nature. In what way?

2. What does Dillard find out about muskrats and humans?

3. The balance enables her to think about the beauty without doing what?

4. Who does Dillard says stalk caribou herds for days?

5. What percentage of insects are parasites?

(see the answer keys)

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