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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. How were Starlings are introduced to America from Europe?
2. How are ladybugs shipped to gardeners?
3. How do honey bees survive the cold of winter?
4. Why did early Eskimos love winter?
5. What does Dillard suggest spring is about?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Dillard see as the difference between plant and animal fecundity?
2. In the second section of Chapter 11, Dillard stays almost exclusively focused on one topic, seldom straying. Why do you think she is staying so focused?
3. Dillard remembers once seeing migrating Canadian geese fly, speeding across the duck pond which leads her to think what?
4. Dillard still rails against the seeming cruelty of nature; however, what else is she seeing by Chapter 13?
5. Why do you think this chapter could have been titled "Potential?"
6. What is are augenblicks and how what does Dillard do with them?
7. Dillard states that once one accepts the inevitability of death, the rest is easy. What might she mean by that?
8. This very brief chapter, "Untying the Knot," is about time. What does Dillard want time to be?
9. Describe the two ways of seeing, according to Dillard.
10. Dillard writes a mystical account of a real encounter with a goldfinch. Briefly describe what she wrote.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
One day while hiking, Dillard comes upon a coot, a water bird, notorious for its shyness. Dillard spends a great deal of space writing about her encounter with the coot. Describe the encounter and what Dillard thinks she learned from it.
Essay Topic 2
Describe some of the scenes Dillard writes of from winters in her past. What had she observed that was cruel? What that was compassionate? Do you think winter lends itself more to cruel behavior than kindness? Why?
Essay Topic 3
"Seeing," is the title of chapter two because the author realizes that in order to first discover and then understand, she must be able to see. What does Dillard mean by "seeing?" Is that different than "looking?" If you looked at an object would you call "seeing" it one thing and "looking" at it another? Why? What would the difference be?
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