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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) a giant oak, two hundred years from then
(d) reaching down to root and its shoot springing towards the heavens

2. How does a young muskrat get fed?
(a) it eats small insects
(b) the mother brings it mouthfuls of grass
(c) it eats birds eggs
(d) it gets plankton fromt he water

3. What does Dillard find out about muskrats and humans?
(a) they eat the same foods
(b) if a muskrat is aware of human's presence, it will not appear
(c) they're both nocturnal
(d) they both like water

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

5. What would Dillard term passive pursuit of animals?
(a) watching animals from the bridge over the creek
(b) watching Animal Planet
(c) going on a camera safari
(d) going to a zoo

Short Answer Questions

1. When Dillard scrapes the outer coating from a monarch's wing, what is left?

2. Believing natural disasters were sent by God is an example of what?

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

4. Why would Dillard say some trees are like body builders?

5. What principle has lead many physicists to mysticism?

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