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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author see as an active mystery?
(a) whether it will rain that day
(b) whether there's life after death
(c) if the creek will ever get bigger
(d) Tinker Creek

2. What does Dillard see as a passive mystery?
(a) if there are fish in the creek
(b) if nature is benign
(c) if her brother would enjoy life in Tinker Creek
(d) the mountains around her

3. How were Starlings are introduced to America from Europe?
(a) by a man who wanted all the birds mentioned in Shakespeare to be present in America
(b) they came over with a European circus
(c) they came in on a boat from England
(d) they were sold as pets to a Virginian family

4. How do mice reach the grain at the top of a stalk?
(a) they climb the stalk on the back of other mice
(b) they wait for the farmer to cut the field
(c) they climb a tree and jump onto the stalk
(d) mice chew wheat stems piece by piece

5. Dillard opens this first chapter remembering this animal.
(a) an alligator she saw in the zoo
(b) an old tomcat that she used to have
(c) a poodle that lived down the street from her
(d) a robin whose nest fell from the tree

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the animal in question #1 often leave on Dillard's nightgown?

2. What does Dillard say is the way to tell winter has arrived?

3. How did Radford, Virginia decide to control their starling problem?

4. Dillard believes that, with indifference, nature hides what?

5. How does Dillard think of Tinker Creek in the first chapter?

(see the answer key)

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