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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who loved birds more than Terry did?

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

3. Why did the author think her mother couldn't get sick?

4. How many species of birds use the refuge?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What caused the LDS prophet to end church meetings one Sunday?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Despair was a theme that was placed in a number of sensitive places in this plot. What are some of these places, and what role did despair play in this book?

Essay Topic 2

Diane and Terry are two very similar people, and yet they have some very notable and important differences. Using the text to cite some support and, write a compare/contrast essay about these two characters.

Essay Topic 3

What are some of the key examples of gratitude in this book, and how do these instances affect that people involved in those situations?

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