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Annie Dillard, The Deer at Providencia

Annie Dillard, The Deer at Providencia

Read The Deer at Providencia and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Then “submit” your work.

1. The story takes place in the jungles of

Brazil.

Australia.

Hawaii.

Ecuador.

2. Which of the following characteristics does not describe the deer when the narrator first encounters it?

thin-skinned

dead

small

struggling

3. After looking at the deer, the narrator and her companions

eat lunch.

read some books.

cry.

take out their cameras.

4. Where do the narrator and her companions live?

They are all from North America.

They are all from South America.

Two are from North America and two are from Australia.

They are all from Brazil, except the narrator, who is American.

5. The essay ends with the story of Alan McDonald, who experienced

the jungles of Australia.

the killing of numerous deer.

two serious burns in his lifetime.

the loss of his hunting lodge.