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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14, Section 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 9 Dillard is uneasy and hears what seems to be gunshots. What did she actually hear?
(a) a garbage truck backfiring
(b) a cap gun
(c) firecrackers
(d) a motorcycle

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

3. What does Dillard think is the reason for so many forms of insects?
(a) it is nature experimenting
(b) they each specialize in something
(c) insects mutate easily
(d) because they are hard to kill

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

5. What does the author think the existence of parasites makes the world?
(a) nothing, parasites don't affect the world
(b) unstable
(c) more real
(d) a horrible place

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 14, Dillard quotes a fifth century Egyptian mystic as saying what?

2. How are ladybugs shipped to gardeners?

3. What does Dillard think the butterflies smell like?

4. At a ranch, Dillard drew a horse. It wasn't a good picture. Others who lived at the ranch drew great horses. Why?

5. Why do birds sing?

(see the answer key)

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