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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What principle has lead many physicists to mysticism?
(a) the answer to question 67
(b) the theory of relativity
(c) the answer to question #128
(d) the answer to question 44

2. What does the author see as somewhat synonymous with the creator, or God?
(a) humans
(b) the sun
(c) energy
(d) nature

3. In Chapter 14, Dillard quotes a fifth century Egyptian mystic as saying what?
(a) fall is the splash of color before the white of winter
(b) go and sit in your cell, and your cell will teach you everything
(c) winter gives rest, as spring energy
(d) meditate outside and you will know the outside

4. What does Dillard think the butterflies smell like?
(a) Tinker Creek
(b) snow
(c) honeysuckle
(d) fall leaves

5. How does Dillard finally reconcile a kind, loving creator with the carnage she observes in the natural world?
(a) by realizing she's not smart enough to understand
(b) by putting it out of her mind
(c) by reinterpreting the meaning of death
(d) by realizing there is no creator

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Dillard says stalk caribou herds for days?

2. What is the "Principle of Indeterminacy?"

3. Believing natural disasters were sent by God is an example of what?

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

5. At the end of the book, Dillard walks with two words in her mind. What are they?

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