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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Observatory to Berries.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the author see flying in the air in "Ants"?
(a) Flying ants.
(b) Swallows.
(c) Sparrows.
(d) Hawks.

2. When did Norfolk farmers learn that the skylarks in their fields were migrants from the Continent?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1922.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1936.

3. What did the wavelength of transmitted radar waves shorten to when they started getting radar reflections of birds?
(a) 12 centimeters.
(b) 5 centimeters.
(c) 8 centimeters.
(d) 10 centimeters.

4. In "Lost, But Catching Up," what did the author just discover that she was allergic to?
(a) Cats.
(b) Reindeer.
(c) Wolves.
(d) Coyotes.

5. In "Ants," what was feeding on flying ants?
(a) Barn swallows.
(b) Bluebirds.
(c) Herring gulls.
(d) Nuthatches.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Deer in the Headlights," when was there a financial crash?

2. When did Macdonald mention that she saw the breath of a fallow buck in "Deer in the Headlights"?

3. What percent of the people who experience migraines experience visual disturbances with their headaches?

4. When did Julian Huxley says that if you did not know birds you did not know your country?

5. How did a British officer survive prison camps in Germany?

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