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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Believing natural disasters were sent by God is an example of what?
(a) not having a good science background
(b) applying a spiritual interpretation to a natural phenomenon
(c) having faith
(d) not understanding God

2. What does the author think about as she watches the flood waters?
(a) the well won't run dry for a while
(b) what the animals do in a flood
(c) surf's up
(d) the waters are very powerful

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Dillard decided is the meaning of death?

2. What does Dillard say is the driving force after reproduction in the animal kingdom?

3. In Chapter 13, Dillard spies a snake. What kind is it?

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

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

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