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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 caused the author's mother to use chemotherapy?

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

3. Who loved birds more than Terry did?

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

5. Where does the phalarope get food?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What did Terry compare the pelican fishing to?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What happened at Fish Springs?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Terry endures many different trials before the end of the book. What are some of these trials and what lessons does she learn through these experiences?

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

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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