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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ants to Hares.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Florence Merriam's Birds Through an Opera-Glass published?
(a) 1891.
(b) 1889.
(c) 1893.
(d) 1887.

2. When did the World Health Organization create a definition of healthy that referred to no one?
(a) 1956.
(b) 1948.
(c) 1953.
(d) 1941.

3. At the beginning of "Field Guides," where was the author observing birds?
(a) Australia.
(b) New Zealand.
(c) United States.
(d) Canada.

4. Where does the author mention that a robin reared chicks?
(a) Traffic light.
(b) An old teapot.
(c) Light pole.
(d) Old kettle.

5. Where did Macdonald join Cabrol and a team for an expedition to high-altitude desert to test methods of detecting life on Mars?
(a) Colombia.
(b) Chile.
(c) Argentina.
(d) Peru.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what UV level did the World Health Organization warn against being outside?

2. When was Cabrol the chief scientist on a team testing an experimental rover in the Atacama Desert?

3. How large was the meadow at Tekels Park?

4. In "Symptomatic," what did the author hear roar that at first she attributed to a migraine she had earlier?

5. If writers have subjects that underlie everything they write, what does the author say that her subject is?

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