Chapter 3: Description
Comprehension Quiz


Gordon Grice - "Caught in the Widow's Web"


1.  

The "widow" in Grice's title refers to:



2.  

Grice calls the webs of black widow spiders the ugliest of any spider because:



3.  

Grice says that we project our terrors of ______ onto the black widow spider.



4.  

The widow's venom contains a neurotoxin that can produce:



5.  

Grice is so drawn to the black widow spider because:

Note: answer choices in this exercise are randomized.

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