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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why did Xerxes stop the advance of his entire army?
2. What does Dillard say can be as blinding as complete darkness?
3. What does Dillard see as a passive mystery?
4. What does the animal in question #1 do to to get Dillard's attention?
5. How does the author say one can obtain "unself-conscious state?"
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Dillard conclude when she attempts to "view" creation from the standpoint of God?
2. Briefly tell the story written in Chapter 15 about a young man and his mother.
3. Dillard believes that the death of the self is painless. What might she mean by this?
4. Why do you think the story about the coot might be significant?
5. Dillard is somewhat obsessed with how creation reproduces itself and the excess with which it does so. How might this "obsession" relate to Dillard's own life or self?
6. Chapter 13 continues Dillard's musing on the "dog eat dog" world especially as it relates to parasites. How does Dillard view the parasitic relationship?
7. How does Dillard relate the season, spring, to language?
8. Why do you think this chapter could have been titled "Potential?"
9. Dillard remembers once seeing migrating Canadian geese fly, speeding across the duck pond which leads her to think what?
10. In Chapter 3, what has the reader learned about Dillard's attitude towards living creatures?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does Dillard feel about harming creatures? What are some of the incidents from her childhood that helped formed these ideas? Do you agree with her? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 2
The present is fleet. One barely glimpses it, and it is gone, Dillard writes. What is the present, according to the author? Why try to stay in it? How does the present compare to the past or the future? Have you ever tried to stay in the moment? Describe one situation when the author tried to stay in the now. Do you think it's possible to stay just in the now? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss "literal" seeing and "figurative" seeing as Dillard uses them. Give examples of each. How do these two terms relate to your life?
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