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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the term the term "northing" mean?
(a) types of birds that don't migrate
(b) denotes traveling in a northerly direction
(c) the name the Eskimoes use for themselves
(d) someone who lives near the artic circle

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In Chapter 13, Dillard quotes Van Gogh. What did she quote?

4. What would Dillard suggest for food instead of creature eating creature?

5. What does Dillard believe is destroyed in the flood?

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