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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of gulls were used as a chapter title?
(a) California Gulls.
(b) Pacific Gulls.
(c) Sea Gulls.
(d) Albatross Gulls.

2. Where did the author go after her mother's surgery?
(a) The bird refuge.
(b) The Great Salt Lake.
(c) Her grandmother's house.
(d) A cemetary.

3. What killed the wheat fields of the early Mormon pioneers?
(a) Indians.
(b) Hail.
(c) Drought.
(d) Crickets.

4. Where did the activities in this book take place?
(a) California.
(b) Utah.
(c) Arizona.
(d) Nevada.

5. Where did Diane live mostly while in chemotherapy treatments?
(a) The future.
(b) The present.
(c) The next world.
(d) The past.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many options were available when the lake exceeded the limits?

2. How does the author's brother get out of church one day?

3. What was the second option when the lake exceeded the limits?

4. Where does the phalarope get food?

5. What did the author test about the Great Salt Lake?

Short Essay Questions

1. What medical procedure did Terry undergo while her mother was in radiation?

2. How do burrowing owls usually make their homes?

3. What happened at Fish Springs?

4. What did Terry do with her mother in the Killdeer chapter?

5. Why was Chapter 7 entitled Peregrine Falcon?

6. What did the author talk about at the beginning of the chapter entitled Barn Swallows?

7. Why did the author take such a deep interest in nature?

8. What was the government trying to do in the chapter entitled Redheads?

9. What did Terry think about while at the funeral of a family friend?

10. What did Terry love about Gunnison Island?

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