Living Like Weasels

In Local Deer, what animal appears before the deer?

• Goats

• Skunks

• Woodchucks

• Rabbits

The idea that human behavior is determined by genes, DNA, and predisposition defines:

• Nurture

• Nature

In Local Deer, what does the deer do that makes the author think of her own children?

• Lies down in the grass

• Runs away

• Walks into the river

• Eats an apple and momentarily chokes

Trees says that it is unfortunate that humans use trees to make money

• False

• True

In Living like Weasels, the effect of combining "motorcycle tracks/turtle nests" is"

• of contrast between the natural worls and encroaching civilization

• of comparing only natural scenes

• of contrasting only encroaching civilization

• of describing the place where Dillard goes to reflect

In Trees, the writer thinks that each tree

• Needs to be pruned

• Has rotten wood

• is a single being

• Too tall

An example of a rhetorical question is:
" What does a weasel think about?" This has the effect: 

• to emphasize that the weasel does not think as a human being
• to emphasize that weasels are wild animals
• to point out the small size of a weasel's brain
• to point out the short time a weasel thinks about its life

In lines 123-129 (" We could, you know. We can live any way we want. ..." ) Dillard's tone can be described as 

• formal and indirect
• informal and direct
• funny and humorous
• stern and somber

Dillard's tone  throughout the essay suggests a familiarity between people who might find themselves in the same situation: people living in ways that are not true to their "calling."

• completely true
• completely false
• partly true
• partly false