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

2. Who wrote "God Sees the Truth but Waits"?

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

4. What saved the Mormon pioneers when their wheat fields were being destroyed?

5. How big was the author's mother's tumor?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why was Chapter 7 entitled Peregrine Falcon?

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

5. How do burrowing owls usually make their homes?

6. What did Terry think about while at the funeral of a family friend?

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

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

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

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

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

What was Terry's profession, and how did this shape her daily decisions?

Essay Topic 3

Sacrifice was a theme that was very prevalent in this book. Who were the people most affected by this theme, and how did they allow sacrifice to change their lives?

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