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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. According to research scientist Jason Chapman, how many insects could pass over a square mile of English farmland in one month?
(a) About 8 billion.
(b) 9 1/4 billion.
(c) 6 billion.
(d) Over 7 1/2 billion.

2. At what altitude is the crater lake atop Licancabur on the Bolivian Altiplano?
(a) 18,704 feet.
(b) Nearly 20,000 feet.
(c) 19,643 feet.
(d) Almost 19,000 feet.

3. In "High-Rise," what month was Macdonald in Manhattan?
(a) August.
(b) June.
(c) July.
(d) May.

4. In the mid-1970s, what trees did the author watch with her mother being torn up and burned?
(a) Alders.
(b) Birch.
(c) Ash.
(d) Dutch elm.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the weather like at the beginning of "Sex, Death, Mushrooms"?

2. Where did Eamonn first see a wild peregrine as a child?

3. How high is the geyser field of El Tatio?

4. What type of swans were on the Thames?

5. In "Storm," what birds did the author see when driving?

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