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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 13, Dillard is still obsessed about nature. In what way?
(a) about the beauty of an oak leaf
(b) about the rain and the sound of water
(c) against the seeming cruelty of nature
(d) about humans destroying nature

2. What does Dillard mean when she says she's willing to sacrifice a little blood in order to be "in the thick of things?"
(a) she would fight on the front lines in any battle
(b) she would rather live life to its fullest even if it means being in danger
(c) she'd bleed to pick a rose
(d) she'd pick up a wild animal that might bite her

3. What does the term the term "northing" mean?
(a) someone who lives near the artic circle
(b) the name the Eskimoes use for themselves
(c) types of birds that don't migrate
(d) denotes traveling in a northerly direction

4. Dillard is sometimes allowed one brief glimpse of a creature. What does she call these glimpses?
(a) her destiny
(b) a gift of abundance
(c) an act of fate
(d) pure good luck

5. How does a young muskrat get fed?
(a) it eats small insects
(b) it gets plankton fromt he water
(c) the mother brings it mouthfuls of grass
(d) it eats birds eggs

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author think about the price of fish?

2. What is necessary in order for the the gooseneck barnacle to reproduce?

3. What would Dillard term passive pursuit of animals?

4. What does Dillard say about the muskrat fur?

5. When Dillard saw migrating Canadian geese fly, speeding across the duck pond, what did she think?

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