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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the principle of indeterminacy invalidate?

2. What is a towhee?

3. What makes birds harder to watch than insects?

4. The previous year, what did Hurricane Agnes do in the area?

5. What does Dillard think the butterflies smell like?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Chapter seven is about spring. Spring is not just a season to the author, but both a natural and metaphysical event. How does Dillard understand spring? How do the creatures she observes help form her opinion? Use one story she has written about spring and animals to illustrate your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Describe Dillard's encounter with the circular snake skin. How did she use it in thinking about time? Do you agree with her beliefs about time? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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