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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did a Russian botanist discover about locusts?
(a) locusts are merely grasshoppers under stress
(b) locusts will eat other insects
(c) locusts have too many babies
(d) locusts breed in the water

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

3. What does the principle of indeterminacy invalidate?
(a) that light travels in a circle
(b) that hummingbirds can sit still
(c) the notion of cause and effect
(d) that the moon causes the tides

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

5. Dillard says if nature is not monstrous, then why does it appear that way to humans?
(a) nature is logical, though a logic humans can't comprehend
(b) it is human's emotional response to nature's illusory horrors
(c) humans can't see the big picture
(d) humans see only the bad

Short Answer Questions

1. After the butterflies finally leave, how does the sky seem to the author?

2. How does a young muskrat get fed?

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

4. What is necessary in order for the the gooseneck barnacle to reproduce?

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

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