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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. What causes the Great Salt Lake levels to lower?

3. Why does the author describe the Great Salt Lake in the way she does?

4. What chance of survival did Diane have during radiation?

5. What kind of gulls were used as a chapter title?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was the United Order?

4. What did Terry compare the pelican fishing to?

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

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

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

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

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

10. Why was Chapter 7 entitled Peregrine Falcon?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

Terry presented a very interesting and unique philosophy on life. What was this philosophy, and how did this different idealism affect the people around her?

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