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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. How does the author describe the color of chanterelles in "Sex, Death, Mushrooms"?
(a) Wax-yellow.
(b) Reddish-brown.
(c) Creamy white.
(d) Dusky brown.

2. Which of the author's relatives was distressed by storms because of the reminder of the Blitz?
(a) Grandmother.
(b) Aunt.
(c) Great-uncle.
(d) Grandfather.

3. When did the author mention that most deer-vehicle collisions occured?
(a) Just after sunset.
(b) Between 8 p.m. and midnight.
(c) Just before dawn.
(d) Between nightfall and midnight and just before dawn.

4. When did the British Trust for Ornithology begin fitting satellite tags to Britsh-trapped cuckoos?
(a) 2009.
(b) 2000.
(c) 2011.
(d) 2005.

5. How long would whoopers swans fly when crossing the North Atlantic to England?
(a) 8 hours.
(b) 15 hours.
(c) 12 hours.
(d) 10 hours.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "A Cuckoo in the House," over the past quarter of a century, how many cuckoos had been lost?

2. Where did the author remember in "Nestboxes" staying where there was a pair of nesting laughing doves?

3. When was the British Trust for Ornithology formed?

4. In "Swan Upping," how old did a waterman say that his swan hook was that broke?

5. When did the World Health Organization create a definition of healthy that referred to no one?

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