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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the literal act of seeing?
(a) watching for movement in the clouds
(b) learning how to spot the different wildlife
(c) opening the eyes and looking straight ahead
(d) using binoculars to see a great distance

2. How does Dillard think of Tinker Creek in the first chapter?
(a) as a place that time forgot
(b) as a scary, mysterious place
(c) as an anchor that keeps her steady in the current of life
(d) that she'd rather live somewhere else

3. What causes most insects' behavior?
(a) imitating parents
(b) the structure of their exoskeleton
(c) external stimuli
(d) innate programming

4. Thinking about God and nature, what does Dillard come to believe is possible?
(a) nature is a God unto itself
(b) God has created much, if not all, of creation in jest
(c) God was sleeping and messed up some of nature
(d) nature has created God

5. When a scientist disrupted pine caterpillars' food trail, what happened?
(a) half of caterpillars made a new trail off to the right
(b) they turned around and followed their trail back home
(c) they stopped, and stayed still until they died
(d) the caterpillars could not restart a new trail

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of Dillard's main occupations in the winter?

2. Why did Indians used grooved arrows?

3. Why are starlings hated in the Tinker Creek area?

4. Dillard sees so much in the natural world which seems paradoxical. Why?

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

(see the answer key)

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