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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. When did the author mention that most deer-vehicle collisions occured?
(a) Just before dawn.
(b) Between 8 p.m. and midnight.
(c) Just after sunset.
(d) Between nightfall and midnight and just before dawn.

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

3. When was the first of the modern field guides published?
(a) 1927.
(b) 1931.
(c) 1928.
(d) 1934.

4. When did the pesticide DDT decimate peregrine populations?
(a) 1950s.
(b) 1950s and 1960s.
(c) 1970s.
(d) 1940s and 1950s.

5. What did the son of prospective tenants carry with him when he and his parents looked at a place to rent in "Inspector Calls"?
(a) Seals.
(b) Walrus.
(c) Dolphins.
(d) Sea lions.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Florence Merriam's Birds Through an Opera-Glass published?

2. When was the solar eclipse that was dubbed "The Great American Eclipse" (75)?

3. What was a chaffinch nest made from that the author collected in "Nests"?

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

5. At the beginning of "Field Guides," where was the author observing birds?

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