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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many years did it take the author to understand her premenstrual pattern?
(a) About 15.
(b) 36.
(c) 24.
(d) Nearly 30.

2. How many farm-reared boars were secretly and illegally dumped in the Forest of Dean in 2004?
(a) 20.
(b) 35.
(c) 60.
(d) 45.

3. When did Samuel Tyalor Coleridge write of a murmuration?
(a) 1787.
(b) 1793.
(c) 1785.
(d) 1799.

4. How many times will the queen of a common black ant mate?
(a) Once.
(b) Twice.
(c) 4 times.
(d) 3 times.

5. Where did the author see a dunnock nest in "Nests"?
(a) Prarie grasses.
(b) Evergreen tree.
(c) Eaves trough.
(d) Forsythia bush.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the refugee do for the New Year in "The Student's Tale"?

2. Where did Macdonald join Cabrol and a team for an expedition to high-altitude desert to test methods of detecting life on Mars?

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

4. When did the author work at a falcon-breeding center in Wales?

5. When Macdonald watched birds migrating with Farnsworth in "High-Rise," about how many birds were there per cubic mile?

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