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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does a boyfriend show Macdonald in the woods in "Nothing Like a Pig"?
(a) Badger.
(b) Boar.
(c) Bank vole.
(d) Fox.

2. How many different plant species ae found in Australia?
(a) 41,000.
(b) 23,000.
(c) 30,000.
(d) 19,000.

3. Where did the author like to walk before nightfall every New Year's Day?
(a) Tekels Park.
(b) Fields behind her home.
(c) Woods.
(d) City streets.

4. How old was Nathalie Cabrol when she watched the first moon landing on television?
(a) 7.
(b) 6.
(c) 8.
(d) 5.

5. In "Nests," when did a woman friend say that she and her friends used to take eggs from birds' nests?
(a) 1920s and 1930s.
(b) 1920s.
(c) 1930s.
(d) 1940s and 1950s.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Student's Tale," what did the refugee do when he learned that the School for Clinical Medicine was closed?

2. When were boars introducted to New Hampshire?

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

4. At the end of "Sex, Death, Mushrooms," what was the last fungus that the author spotted?

5. When did Samuel Tyalor Coleridge write of a murmuration?

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