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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Dillard says that if plants had emotions, she would applaud this:
(a) their willingness to live in harmony
(b) their ability to fly in the teeth of it all
(c) their kindness
(d) their ability to tolerate other life forms

2. In Chapter 10, what does Dillard see as making life easier?
(a) staying in a state of denial
(b) accepting that everything dies
(c) living in the city
(d) a lot of money

3. When do Eskimos hunt caribou?
(a) right before summer
(b) in the fall
(c) at the beginning of winter
(d) at the end of spring

4. What do the Eskimos do with the greens in their prey's stomach?
(a) feed them to their dogs
(b) they never look in the stomach
(c) eat them
(d) throw them in the ocean

5. What is the other type of poisonous snake besides the answer in #139, that lives around the creek area?
(a) side winder
(b) cotton mouth
(c) coral snake
(d) timber rattler

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dillard believe is destroyed in the flood?

2. Dillard suggests that the physical world is "all touch and go." What does she mean by this?

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

4. How does the author see the violence in the natural world?

5. What does Dillard mean when she says she's willing to sacrifice a little blood in order to be "in the thick of things?"

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