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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author think about fish?
(a) they are quiet animals
(b) they are rather dumb water inhabitants
(c) they are spirit food
(d) they are fairly clean food

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

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

4. In this book the author is not only striving to understand the natural world, but to understand this acceptance:
(a) the interplay of life and death
(b) humankind's place in the world
(c) the meaning of acceptance
(d) the creator behind that world

5. What does Dillard see as the difference between a parasite and a predator?
(a) it's easier to pick out the predator
(b) nothing they're both bad
(c) the predator is more honest
(d) at least one has a fighting chance when up against a predator

Short Answer Questions

1. What percentage of insects are parasites?

2. What does the author see as somewhat synonymous with the creator, or God?

3. After the butterflies finally leave, how does the sky seem to the author?

4. When Richmond loses electricity Dillard says something happened at the governor's mansion. What?

5. Ultimately, what does Dillard say about predators or parasites?

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