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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. To whom did Terry compare Antelope Island?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her cousin.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her brother.

2. What did Terry want to communicate with in the Pink Flamingos chapter?
(a) Her God.
(b) A friend.
(c) The land.
(d) Her mother.

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

4. What causes the Great Salt Lake levels to rise?
(a) Snow run off.
(b) Desaturation of salt.
(c) All of these.
(d) Rain.

5. What did Brigham Young call the Great Basin?
(a) The New Jerusalem.
(b) The Zion.
(c) The Promised Land.
(d) The Holy Land.

Short Answer Questions

1. What surprised the men at Antelope Island about Terry?

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

3. How did Diane communicate with the person she knew with a brain tumor?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Terry feel when birds were displaced from the refuge?

2. Why did the author say she liked to go to the dump?

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

4. Why was Chapter 7 entitled Peregrine Falcon?

5. What did the author discuss at the beginning of the chapter entitled Peregrine Falcon?

6. What was the United Order?

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

8. What did Terry love about Gunnison Island?

9. What did the author compare starlings to, and why?

10. What was the big news in the Yellow Headed Blackbird chapter?

(see the answer keys)

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