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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. How many birds are at the Bird Fair, Britain's premier birding event?
(a) 40 to 100.
(b) None.
(c) 200 to 300.
(d) 100s.

2. In "Deer in the Headlights," when were the ancestors of the herd the author observed brought to the estate?
(a) 17th century.
(b) 18th century.
(c) 15th century.
(d) 16th century.

3. In "Nests," when did a woman friend say that she and her friends used to take eggs from birds' nests?
(a) 1920s.
(b) 1930s.
(c) 1920s and 1930s.
(d) 1940s and 1950s.

4. How many beakfuls of mud might it take a Martin to build a nest?
(a) 900.
(b) 1,500.
(c) About 1,200.
(d) 1,000 or so.

5. When did the World Health Organization create a definition of healthy that referred to no one?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1956.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1953.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Maxwell Knight, an intelligence officer, place agents in various organizations?

2. In "The Falcon and the Tower," how many breeding pairs of peregrines were in New York City?

3. In "Symptomatic," what did the author hear roar that at first she attributed to a migraine she had earlier?

4. According to research scientist Jason Chapman, how many insects could pass over a square mile of English farmland in one month?

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

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