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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 does the author describe the color of chanterelles in "Sex, Death, Mushrooms"?
(a) Creamy white.
(b) Dusky brown.
(c) Reddish-brown.
(d) Wax-yellow.

2. Where did the author see a dunnock nest in "Nests"?
(a) Forsythia bush.
(b) Evergreen tree.
(c) Prarie grasses.
(d) Eaves trough.

3. Where did Macdonald once find a dead swift?
(a) Under a bridge over the River Thames.
(b) Backyard.
(c) Under a bridge over the River Lyne.
(d) Woods.

4. How many eggs will a female glow-worm lay before dying?
(a) 50 to 150.
(b) 90 to 140.
(c) 80 to 100.
(d) 75 to 125.

5. In "Deer in the Headlights," when was there a financial crash?
(a) 2009.
(b) 2007.
(c) 2010.
(d) 2008.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what altitude might shorebirds pass over Manhattan?

2. How long could the author ride on a horse before her allergies got too severe to continue riding?

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

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

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

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