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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. How high is the geyser field of El Tatio?
(a) Around 15,000 feet.
(b) 13,749 feet.
(c) 11,984 feet.
(d) About 14,000 feet.

2. When did Maxwell Knight, an intelligence officer, place agents in various organizations?
(a) 1950s to 1970s.
(b) 1940s to 1980s.
(c) 1920s to 1950s.
(d) 1930s to end of World War II.

3. If there was five seconds between lightning and thunder, how far away would the storm be?
(a) 2 miles.
(b) 1/4 mile.
(c) A mile.
(d) 1/2 mile.

4. Where did Macdonald join Cabrol and a team for an expedition to high-altitude desert to test methods of detecting life on Mars?
(a) Colombia.
(b) Chile.
(c) Peru.
(d) Argentina.

5. At what UV level did the World Health Organization warn against being outside?
(a) Over 11.
(b) 14.
(c) 15.
(d) Around 12.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the World Health Organization create a definition of healthy that referred to no one?

2. In "The Observatory," what did a swan do when it approached Macdonald?

3. What bird did the author see in "Human Flock"?

4. In "Murmurations," where did the author remember watching starlings come to roost?

5. In "A Cuckoo in the House," over the past quarter of a century, how many cuckoos had been lost?

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