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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 chance of survival did Diane have during radiation?
(a) 40%
(b) 25%
(c) 30%
(d) 50%

2. How does the author describe the Great Salt Lake?
(a) Thriving.
(b) Terminal.
(c) Selfish.
(d) Dying.

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

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

5. What saved the Mormon pioneers when their wheat fields were being destroyed?
(a) Rain.
(b) Prayers.
(c) Blankets.
(d) Gulls.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Terry's mother's doctor?

2. What causes the Great Salt Lake levels to lower?

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

4. What would have been threatened if the lake water were pumped?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What was the United Order?

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

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

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

10. What happened at Fish Springs?

(see the answer keys)

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