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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When Dillard comes upon a rooting acorn, she imagines what?
(a) reaching down to root and its shoot springing towards the heavens
(b) the acorn burying itself to come to life in the spring
(c) a giant oak, two hundred years from then
(d) an squirrel grabbing the acorn and ending its fragile life

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

4. What is the "Principle of Indeterminacy?"
(a) one can not know both the velocity and the position of a particle
(b) one cannot know how far a star is by looking at it
(c) the time of day cannot be determined from looking at the sky
(d) it is not possible to determine the sex of a baby muskrat

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The previous year, what did Hurricane Agnes do in the area?

2. Eskimos believe it is a great honor to be incarnated as what?

3. How much impact on any of the creatures, mountains, or creek around her does the author think she has?

4. What lures birds of all species out of their summer hiding places?

5. What does the author think the existence of parasites makes the world?

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