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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Cherry Stones to What Animals Taught Me.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Argentina.
(c) Chile.
(d) Peru.

2. When was the eclipse in India that forced an observer to retreat to his room and plunge his head into water?
(a) 1853.
(b) 1871.
(c) 1884.
(d) 1869.

3. When did Cabrol watch a television documentary about the crater lake atop Licancabur on the Bolivian Altiplano?
(a) 2000.
(b) 2002.
(c) 1999.
(d) 2001.

4. How long was the journey to catch all the swans on the upper reaches of the River Thames?
(a) 3 days.
(b) 2 days.
(c) 7 days.
(d) 5 days.

5. In "Murmurations," where did the author remember watching starlings come to roost?
(a) Margate.
(b) Liverpool.
(c) Brighton.
(d) Harwich.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Norfolk farmers learn that the skylarks in their fields were migrants from the Continent?

2. In "Eulogy," what bird did Judith and Macdonald hear after nightfall?

3. During the expedition where the author joined Cabrol, how many hours a night was Cabrol sleeping?

4. Where did the author like to see swans in the winter?

5. In "Ants," what was feeding on flying ants?

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