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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the author think her mother couldn't get sick?
(a) She was too good.
(b) She was too strong.
(c) She was too young.
(d) She was too beautiful.

2. What is the first chapter called?
(a) The Great Salt Lake.
(b) Burrowing Owls.
(c) Panthers.
(d) Great Grandma.

3. In 1985, half a million ____________________ were purchased.
(a) Salt Lake crystals.
(b) Travel vouchers.
(c) Plastic flamingos.
(d) Duck decoys.

4. What happened to Diane Dixon Tempest in 1971?
(a) She got an STD.
(b) She got cancer.
(c) She was mobbed.
(d) She had a disabled child.

5. What was the third option for when the lake exceeded the limits?
(a) Breach the causeway.
(b) Pump the water.
(c) Diking the water.
(d) Store the water.

6. Where did the author learn about the Great Salt Lake?
(a) College.
(b) A trip.
(c) School.
(d) A conference.

7. What caused the author's mother to use chemotherapy?
(a) She had a dream about it.
(b) She had much to live for.
(c) She believed in her doctor.
(d) She had seen her sister use it.

8. Who loved birds more than Terry did?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her brother.
(c) Her daughter.
(d) Her husband.

9. Where does the phalarope get food?
(a) Trees.
(b) The shore.
(c) The bottom of the water.
(d) Dead carcasses.

10. When did the author usually speak to her mother?
(a) At night.
(b) On the weekends.
(c) In the afternoons.
(d) In the mornings.

11. How many species of birds use the refuge?
(a) 208.
(b) 108.
(c) 88.
(d) 158.

12. Where was the author working during her mother's chemotherapy treatments?
(a) A college.
(b) A museum.
(c) A refuge.
(d) A church.

13. What was Diane always at one with according to her daughter?
(a) Pain.
(b) Nature.
(c) Her soul.
(d) Religion.

14. What did Diane spot at Bear River that was rare?
(a) Pacific gulls.
(b) Flamingos.
(c) Snow buntings.
(d) Bald eagles.

15. Who wrote "God Sees the Truth but Waits"?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Plato.
(c) Tolstoy.
(d) Dostoyevsky.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes the Great Salt Lake freezable?

2. How long did Terry's mother's doctor want to put her on radiation?

3. What is the name of the author's brother?

4. Why was the author surprised when her mother agreed to use chemotherapy?

5. What saved the Mormon pioneers when their wheat fields were being destroyed?

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