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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Section 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Dillard sees so much in the natural world which seems paradoxical. Why?
(a) because half the day had sun, half did not
(b) because the same plant could heal you or kill you
(c) because large trees would block the sun from smaller ones
(d) she saw beauty side by side with horrors

2. What does Dillard say is the way to tell winter has arrived?
(a) when the creek's water has frozen
(b) when you see the first snowfall
(c) you can taste winter's arrival on the air
(d) when you have to make your first fire

3. What did Dillard do at one time about insects as a child?
(a) shooed them out of the house before her mother could kill them
(b) catch fireflies in glass jars to watch them glow
(c) watched them in the grass with a magnifying glass
(d) killed bugs with carbon tetrachloride and then pinned them on labeled boards

4. How does Dillard visualize the present?
(a) as a hummingbird that stops for nectar
(b) as a hawk soaring on the breeze
(c) as the middle of everything
(d) as a wave that explodes over her head

5. One branch of Jewish philosophy believes that part of the responsibility of humans is to do what?
(a) stand in for God with the animals
(b) to help God by hallowing creation
(c) planting trees
(d) to experience the moment

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the literal act of seeing?

2. How does Dillard see time?

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

4. How do praying mantises mate?

5. If there were only one tree in the world, what would happen, according to the author?

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