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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. Who did Diane know with a brain tumor?
(a) A cousin.
(b) A brother.
(c) A friend.
(d) An aunt.

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

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

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

5. What information did the author give at the beginning of each chapter?
(a) The location of her family.
(b) The year.
(c) Her age.
(d) The lake levels.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the third option for when the lake exceeded the limits?

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

3. Why does the author describe the Great Salt Lake in the way she does?

4. How did Diane feel when she heard what her survival rate was during radiation?

5. Why did the author go somewhere after her mother's surgery?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Chapter 7 entitled Peregrine Falcon?

2. What did the author and her mother do when they got news of the tumor?

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

4. What did Terry do when she saw a dead swan?

5. What is similar in each chapter of this book?

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

7. Why didn't Diane ever come to love birds?

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

9. What did the author compare her mother to during her chemotherapy treatment?

10. What did the author do at the dump when she went there?

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