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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. Why did the author go somewhere after her mother's surgery?
(a) To give her mother privacy.
(b) To collect her thoughts.
(c) To pray.
(d) To pay her respects.

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

3. How old was the author when she joined the Audubon Society?
(a) 10.
(b) 12.
(c) 11.
(d) 13.

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

5. What causes the Great Salt Lake levels to lower?
(a) All of these.
(b) Evaporation.
(c) Strong inlets.
(d) Drought.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What separates the Bear River from the Snake River?

3. Where did Diane go swimming while she was still sick?

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

5. What was Diane always at one with according to her daughter?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happened at Fish Springs?

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

4. What did Terry compare the pelican fishing to?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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