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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, Section 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the author see the violence in the natural world?
(a) as a mistake God made
(b) as a symbolic sacrifice
(c) as something that needs changed
(d) as inevitable

2. What does the author believe about the difference between abundant plant life and abundant insect life?
(a) the proliferation of plant life, does not disturb humans the way an overabundance of insects do
(b) plants would be more abundant without insects
(c) insects will always outnumber plants
(d) abundant insect life is healthier for the earth

3. What does Dillard say happens the moment you are aware of the present?
(a) it no longer matters
(b) it becomes the past
(c) it freezes
(d) you lose it

4. In Chapter 3, Dillard stalks a bird along the iced over creek. What kind of bird was it?
(a) coot
(b) duck
(c) robin
(d) blue jay

5. Why do birds sing?
(a) because they like to hear themselves
(b) scientists really do not know why birds sing
(c) to signal to other birds
(d) to praise the sun

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Dillard see time?

2. How do honey bees survive the cold of winter?

3. Dillard believes that "weather overlaps" which causes what?

4. What does Dillard say hinders people from experiencing the now?

5. When Dillard becomes motionless in watching for a muskrat, what does she do?

(see the answer key)

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