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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 did the author's family do for vacations when she was a child?

2. What did Brigham Young call the Great Basin?

3. What causes the depths of the Great Salt Lake to change?

4. Where did the author go after her mother's surgery?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What medical procedure did Terry undergo while her mother was in radiation?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Why was Chapter 7 entitled Peregrine Falcon?

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

10. What did Terry compare the pelican fishing to?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Fear is a common theme in this book that is presented a number of times by a number of people. What are some of these instances, and how does fear affect the people in the book?

Essay Topic 2

Belonging and security were two themes present in this book. Where did these themes appear, and which people were most motivated by them?

Essay Topic 3

Personal identity was one of the main themes in this book. Where did this theme appear, and how did its inclusion in the novel shape the course of the plot?

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