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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Dillard discovers so much violence and horror in the natural world, how does she feel?
(a) depressed that the world was created so
(b) relieved that insects are killed in such large numbers
(c) confused because it seems contradictory to logic
(d) disillusioned as to the goodness of creation and the creator

2. What could happen if the caribou migrate out of the Eskimo's range?
(a) they won't get culled and will overpopulate
(b) the Eskimos won't have enough fur for coats
(c) remote Eskimo tribes can starve
(d) the polar bears will follow the herds

3. When Dillard scrapes the outer coating from a monarch's wing, what is left?
(a) the wings are the same color the whole way through
(b) nothing, the wings are too fragile to scrape
(c) a pale pink membrane
(d) a thin, translucent membrane, crisscrossed with black lines

4. In Chapter 13, the author is beginning to find a balance in her thinking about nature. What is that balance?
(a) a balance between believing nature to be for animals or humans
(b) a balance between believing nature to be better than cities or not
(c) a balance between believing nature to be good or evil
(d) a balance between believing nature to be either terrible or wonderful

5. How does Dillard finally reconcile a kind, loving creator with the carnage she observes in the natural world?
(a) by putting it out of her mind
(b) by realizing there is no creator
(c) by reinterpreting the meaning of death
(d) by realizing she's not smart enough to understand

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are the answer to #163 going?

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

3. In Chapter 13, Dillard quotes Van Gogh. What did she quote?

4. Dillard is sometimes allowed one brief glimpse of a creature. What does she call these glimpses?

5. What does the author think about the price of fish?

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