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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When did Macdonald and her parents leave Tekels Park?
(a) 1980s.
(b) 1991.
(c) 1984.
(d) 1990s.

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

4. In "Human Flock," where was the author?
(a) Poland.
(b) Hungary.
(c) Austria.
(d) Czech Republic.

5. When did Samuel Tyalor Coleridge write of a murmuration?
(a) 1793.
(b) 1785.
(c) 1799.
(d) 1787.

6. What bird did the author see in "Human Flock"?
(a) Sandhill cranes.
(b) Wattled cranes.
(c) Eurasian cranes.
(d) Black crowned cranes.

7. How old was Nathalie Cabrol when she watched the first moon landing on television?
(a) 5.
(b) 6.
(c) 8.
(d) 7.

8. How many more women than men, according to the author in "Symptomatic", experience migraines?
(a) 3 times.
(b) 2 times.
(c) 4 times.
(d) 5 times.

9. At the end of "Sex, Death, Mushrooms," what was the last fungus that the author spotted?
(a) Cauliflower fungus.
(b) Chanterelle.
(c) Crab brittlegills.
(d) Common stinkhorn.

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

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

12. In "Symptomatic," how many people does the author say suffer from migraines?
(a) About 100 million.
(b) 10 billion.
(c) 75 million.
(d) More than a billion.

13. How many boars were shot in the Forest of Dean between 2014 and 2015?
(a) 274.
(b) 411.
(c) 198.
(d) 361.

14. How old was Macdonald in 1976?
(a) 7.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

15. How old was the author when she saw that the meadow at Tekels Park was destroyed?
(a) 50s.
(b) 40s.
(c) 42.
(d) 37.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the "Introduction," what extinction does the author say that we are living through?

2. Where did Cabrol study for her Ph.D?

3. How many farm-reared boars were secretly and illegally dumped in the Forest of Dean in 2004?

4. How many years after viewing the Cornwall eclipse, did the author view an eclipse in Turkey?

5. How many times has the authoir had visual disturbances with her migraines?

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