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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Observatory to Berries.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Storm," when was the author driving?
(a) Winter.
(b) Fall.
(c) Spring.
(d) Summer.

2. In "Swan Upping," how old did a waterman say that his swan hook was that broke?
(a) 80 to 100 years old.
(b) 100 to 150 years old.
(c) 75 years old.
(d) 90 years old.

3. How fast can hares run?
(a) 15 miles an hour.
(b) 30 miles an hour.
(c) 25 miles an hour.
(d) 40 miles an hour.

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

5. What did the wavelength of transmitted radar waves shorten to when they started getting radar reflections of birds?
(a) 12 centimeters.
(b) 10 centimeters.
(c) 8 centimeters.
(d) 5 centimeters.

Short Answer Questions

1. In winter, where do European swifts spend a few month in winter?

2. Where did the author remember in "Nestboxes" staying where there was a pair of nesting laughing doves?

3. When was Cabrol the chief scientist on a team testing an experimental rover in the Atacama Desert?

4. When did the British Trust for Ornithology begin fitting satellite tags to Britsh-trapped cuckoos?

5. Where did Macdonald once find a dead swift?

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