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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 fairly clean food
(c) they are spirit food
(d) they are rather dumb water inhabitants

2. Dillard believes that if she waits patiently with no anticipation of what is to come, this will happen.
(a) she will see any animal she wants to see
(b) she will be at peace
(c) when something does come, it will bowl her over
(d) she will be enlightened

3. What serves as a catalyst to ready the birds for migration?
(a) the leaves turning colors
(b) the fall air
(c) catepillers making cocoons
(d) lack of flowers in the landscape

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) the creator behind that world
(c) the meaning of acceptance
(d) humankind's place in the world

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does Dillard says stalk caribou herds for days?

3. What makes birds harder to watch than insects?

4. What is the muskrat young called?

5. In Chapter 14, Dillard quotes a fifth century Egyptian mystic as saying what?

(see the answer keys)

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