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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Cherry Stones to What Animals Taught Me.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What bird did a taxi driver have on the screen of his phone in "Birds, Tabled"?
(a) Kestrel.
(b) Shrike.
(c) Ptarmigan.
(d) Bullfinch.

2. When did Stanley Spencer leave the painting Swan Upping at Cookham unfinished in his bedroom?
(a) 1916.
(b) 1914.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1915.

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

4. Where did the author go with a boyfriend to a bird fair in "Birds, Tabled"?
(a) East Midlands.
(b) Yorkshire and the Humber.
(c) East of England.
(d) West Midlands.

5. When was the eclipse in India that forced an observer to retreat to his room and plunge his head into water?
(a) 1869.
(b) 1871.
(c) 1884.
(d) 1853.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What did Macdonald look for in a disused chalk quarry in "In Spight of Prisons"?

4. How high were herring gulls flying in "Ants"?

5. In "A Handful of Corn," what creatures did the author's neighbor, Mrs. Leslie-Smith, entice to her garden with cookies?

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