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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dillard say about the muskrat fur?
(a) they are the most popular fur animal in North America
(b) it's smelly when wet
(c) it tends to be spotty
(d) it's thin and of little use

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

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

4. Fecundity could be defined as:
(a) prolific in offspring
(b) a type of fat
(c) wasteful of resources
(d) always hungry

5. What do the Eskimos do with the greens in their prey's stomach?
(a) eat them
(b) throw them in the ocean
(c) they never look in the stomach
(d) feed them to their dogs

6. How does Dillard finally reconcile a kind, loving creator with the carnage she observes in the natural world?
(a) by realizing she's not smart enough to understand
(b) by realizing there is no creator
(c) by reinterpreting the meaning of death
(d) by putting it out of her mind

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

8. How does the author see the violence in the natural world?
(a) as something that needs changed
(b) as inevitable
(c) as a symbolic sacrifice
(d) as a mistake God made

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

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

11. What lures birds of all species out of their summer hiding places?
(a) a wet rain
(b) a cold snap
(c) a cloudy day
(d) seeds sprinkled on the ground

12. Ultimately, what does Dillard say about predators or parasites?
(a) parasites are suicidal
(b) predators get parasites from their food
(c) a predator can be infested with a parasite
(d) it's eat or starve no matter who you are

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

14. The balance enables her to think about the beauty without doing what?
(a) constantly remember the aspects of nature which she finds ugly
(b) making all of nature good
(c) making all of nature bad
(d) wanting to move to a large city and never be in nature again

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When ancient Hebrews sacrificed an animal to their god, how did they use the horns?

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

3. In Chapter 9 Dillard is uneasy and hears what seems to be gunshots. What did she actually hear?

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

5. What does Dillard mean when she says she's willing to sacrifice a little blood in order to be "in the thick of things?"

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