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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where are the answer to #163 going?
(a) to Tinker Creek
(b) to California
(c) to the ocean
(d) to the south

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

3. When moving towards a muskrat, how does one keep from scaring it?
(a) sit still and hold your breath
(b) lay down and crawl on your belly
(c) walk in the water
(d) move when the muskrat's head is turned away from your direction

4. In Chapter 13, Dillard is still obsessed about nature. In what way?
(a) about humans destroying nature
(b) about the rain and the sound of water
(c) against the seeming cruelty of nature
(d) about the beauty of an oak leaf

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did early man view locusts?

3. What does the author believe about the difference between abundant plant life and abundant insect life?

4. What does Dillard believe the flood shows about nature?

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

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