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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. After she examines the snake skin closely, what does she figure out?
(a) it was not a snake but a long, skinny lizard
(b) it was not real
(c) it was alive
(d) she realizes that the snake had turned parts of the skin inside out, making it appear as though the skin is in a knot

3. What changes about the view around Dillard's home when winter comes?
(a) nothing changes about the view
(b) winter opens vistas around Dillard's home so she can see other homes
(c) the view looks stark and empty
(d) the snow covered trees block her view of the creek

4. What does she realize is the best way to quiet her mind?
(a) by offering a nonchalant nod to the presence of words in the head
(b) taking a sleeping pill
(c) sitting quietly and breathing deeply
(d) counting from 100 to zero backwards

5. What did the animal in question #1 often leave on Dillard's nightgown?
(a) cat hairs
(b) wet, slimy mud off his paws
(c) a dead mouse
(d) bloody, rose-shaped paw prints

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dillard find out when she takes her first course in French?

2. In Alaska and northern Canada during winter what is a topic of continual fascination?

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

4. What does the author say the future is?

5. She claims the ability to see what is hidden is what?

(see the answer key)

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