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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. What does the author see as an active mystery?
(a) if the creek will ever get bigger
(b) whether it will rain that day
(c) whether there's life after death
(d) Tinker Creek
2. Why does the author think nature experiments with insects' shape, form and "niche?"
(a) because nature is still trying to figure out how to kill off the insects
(b) from boredom
(c) to see which works best
(d) Dillard figures nature will try anything once
3. What does Dillard believe is destroyed in the flood?
(a) the creek bed
(b) the plankton
(c) a beaver's dam
(d) the bee hives in the field
4. How did the Romans use the horns of the altar?
(a) to kill geese with
(b) to tie their goats to which worshipping
(c) they'd grasp the horns and swear by them
(d) used to move the altar
5. What does Dillard say about humans and change?
(a) humans hate change
(b) humans abhor statis
(c) humans believe stability if good
(d) humans believe change is necessary
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Dillard mean when she says she's willing to sacrifice a little blood in order to be "in the thick of things?"
2. What makes birds harder to watch than insects?
3. What does Dillard believe is healing?
4. Thinking about God and nature, what does Dillard come to believe is possible?
5. In Chapter 4 what does Dillard use for controlling garden insects?
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