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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In addition to form and texture, what does the author believe influences beauty?
(a) perception
(b) color
(c) time
(d) time of day

2. If you could watch the unfolding through time of every thing that ever existed on Earth, what does Dillard say you would see?
(a) joy
(b) upheaval and violence
(c) destruction and fear
(d) an endless tempest of beauty

3. Dillard says there is loveliness and grace throughout creation. What is also there?
(a) fear
(b) scarcity
(c) violence
(d) the bizarre and grotesque

4. What did a Russian botanist discover about locusts?
(a) locusts breed in the water
(b) locusts will eat other insects
(c) locusts are merely grasshoppers under stress
(d) locusts have too many babies

5. How did early man view locusts?
(a) as the harbringer of a natural disaster
(b) locusts were thought to be a plague sent by God
(c) as a visitation from heaven
(d) as a plague sent by the devil

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Dillard see time?

2. When Dillard moves from describing details of creation to trying to understand more about creation what is she doing?

3. Silvery eels swim to the sea after eight years of maturing in obscure creeks and rivers. What happens to them at the sea?

4. Believing natural disasters were sent by God is an example of what?

5. How does Dillard believe the seeking of God takes place?

(see the answer key)

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