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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lost, But Catching Up to Sunbirds and Cashmere Spheres.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Lost, But Catching Up," what did the author just discover that she was allergic to?
(a) Reindeer.
(b) Cats.
(c) Wolves.
(d) Coyotes.

2. When did the author view with her father the first total eclipse to cross the UK in over 70 years?
(a) 2001.
(b) 1997.
(c) 2003.
(d) 1999.

3. What was the weather like at the beginning of "Sex, Death, Mushrooms"?
(a) Windy.
(b) Partly cloudy.
(c) Raining.
(d) Snowing.

4. How close could the author get to the deer in "Deer in the Headlights"?
(a) 100 yards.
(b) 150 yards.
(c) 50 yards.
(d) 175 yards.

5. How long ago did the author say in "Deer in the Headlights" that images of deer started appearing on soft furnishings and homeware?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 11 years.
(c) 5 years.
(d) 8 years.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Macdonald look for in a disused chalk quarry in "In Spight of Prisons"?

3. How many more women than men, according to the author in "Symptomatic", experience migraines?

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

5. What percentage of an increase in hate crimes occurred after the Brexit vote?

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