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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Symptomatic," how many people does the author say suffer from migraines?
(a) 75 million.
(b) More than a billion.
(c) About 100 million.
(d) 10 billion.

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

3. If writers have subjects that underlie everything they write, what does the author say that her subject is?
(a) Hope.
(b) Death.
(c) Home.
(d) Love.

4. At the end of "Sex, Death, Mushrooms," what was the last fungus that the author spotted?
(a) Crab brittlegills.
(b) Chanterelle.
(c) Cauliflower fungus.
(d) Common stinkhorn.

5. At what altitude is the crater lake atop Licancabur on the Bolivian Altiplano?
(a) 18,704 feet.
(b) Almost 19,000 feet.
(c) Nearly 20,000 feet.
(d) 19,643 feet.

Short Answer Questions

1. When were the Cabinet of Curiosities a craze in Europe?

2. In "Nests," when did a woman friend say that she and her friends used to take eggs from birds' nests?

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

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

5. Where did Cabrol study for her Ph.D?

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