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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. If there were only one tree in the world, what would happen, according to the author?
(a) there would not be enough oxygen to breath
(b) humans would all live around the tree
(c) the world would cease to exist
(d) all creatures would travel to touch it in order to feel secure

3. What is figurative seeing?
(a) seeing with the inner eye and looking beyond outward appearances
(b) watching the invisible
(c) closing the eyes and seeing another world
(d) seeing in dreams

4. In Chapter 13, Dillard spies a snake. What kind is it?
(a) a copperhead
(b) a brown water snake
(c) a coral snake
(d) a black snake

5. What does Dillard find out about muskrats and humans?
(a) they eat the same foods
(b) if a muskrat is aware of human's presence, it will not appear
(c) they both like water
(d) they're both nocturnal

Short Answer Questions

1. What would Dillard term passive pursuit of animals?

2. How much of life which has ever been created, is living at the present time?

3. How does Dillard see time?

4. The previous year, what did Hurricane Agnes do in the area?

5. In Chapter 5 Dillard writes about finding a snake. What appeared peculiar about the snake?

(see the answer key)

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