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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is a towhee?
(a) a type of large rodent
(b) a brown and red snake
(c) a type of domesticated parrot
(d) a large bird

3. What does the author believe about the difference between abundant plant life and abundant insect life?
(a) insects will always outnumber plants
(b) abundant insect life is healthier for the earth
(c) the proliferation of plant life, does not disturb humans the way an overabundance of insects do
(d) plants would be more abundant without insects

4. What are the "horns of the altar?"
(a) the four corners of an altar
(b) the center
(c) the edges
(d) the part of the altar that holds the banner

5. In Chapter 13, Dillard quotes Van Gogh. What did she quote?
(a) it's important to see
(b) the important thing is to breathe
(c) life is not pretty
(d) life is not art

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of the book, Dillard walks with two words in her mind. What are they?

2. What does Dillard say about the muskrat fur?

3. Dillard believes that few humans have been as cruel as what, in the natural world?

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

5. What lures birds of all species out of their summer hiding places?

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