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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. In "Murmurations," what time did a flock of plovers fly low?
(a) 9:15 a.m.
(b) 8:20 a.m.
(c) 9:05 a.m.
(d) 8:00 a.m.

2. In "The Falcon and the Tower," where was the author?
(a) Wales.
(b) Scotland.
(c) Ireland.
(d) Normandy.

3. In "Rescue," how long ago did Judith rescue her first swift chick?
(a) 17 years.
(b) 11 years.
(c) 21 years.
(d) 14 years.

4. Where did the author go with a boyfriend to a bird fair in "Birds, Tabled"?
(a) Yorkshire and the Humber.
(b) West Midlands.
(c) East Midlands.
(d) East of England.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years after viewing the Cornwall eclipse, did the author view an eclipse in Turkey?

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

3. In "Dispatches from the Valleys," how much would a fertilized ostrich egg sell for?

4. In "Human Flock," where was the author?

5. In "Wicken," how many acres of Wicken Fen had been returned to its former wetland state?

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