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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When did Cabrol watch a television documentary about the crater lake atop Licancabur on the Bolivian Altiplano?
(a) 2001.
(b) 2000.
(c) 2002.
(d) 1999.

3. What did the son of prospective tenants carry with him when he and his parents looked at a place to rent in "Inspector Calls"?
(a) Sea lions.
(b) Walrus.
(c) Dolphins.
(d) Seals.

4. How many farm-reared boars were secretly and illegally dumped in the Forest of Dean in 2004?
(a) 20.
(b) 45.
(c) 35.
(d) 60.

5. How long did George Waterston sit with his colleagues by the first Scottish osprey nest and keep it under observation through the telescopic sights of rifles?
(a) 50 years.
(b) 5 years.
(c) 30 years.
(d) 20 years.

6. When was Cabrol the chief scientist on a team testing an experimental rover in the Atacama Desert?
(a) 2001.
(b) 2004.
(c) 2002.
(d) 2003.

7. How long might a queen of a common black ant live?
(a) 10 years.
(b) 20 years.
(c) 5 years.
(d) 30 years.

8. In "Ants," what was feeding on flying ants?
(a) Barn swallows.
(b) Herring gulls.
(c) Nuthatches.
(d) Bluebirds.

9. Where did Macdonald's parents buy a house in 1976?
(a) Earlswood, Surrey.
(b) Maybury, Surrey.
(c) Abbotswood, Surrey.
(d) Camberley, Surrey.

10. Where did the author like to walk before nightfall every New Year's Day?
(a) City streets.
(b) Woods.
(c) Fields behind her home.
(d) Tekels Park.

11. In "The Student's Tale," what did the refugee do when he learned that the School for Clinical Medicine was closed?
(a) Sighed.
(b) Swore.
(c) Laughed.
(d) Cried.

12. When were boars introducted to New Hampshire?
(a) 1860s.
(b) 1870s.
(c) 1880s.
(d) 1890s.

13. At what UV level did the World Health Organization warn against being outside?
(a) Around 12.
(b) 14.
(c) Over 11.
(d) 15.

14. When was Florence Merriam's Birds Through an Opera-Glass published?
(a) 1887.
(b) 1891.
(c) 1893.
(d) 1889.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the solar eclipse that was dubbed "The Great American Eclipse" (75)?

2. Where did Macdonald join Cabrol and a team for an expedition to high-altitude desert to test methods of detecting life on Mars?

3. When did the author work at a falcon-breeding center in Wales?

4. At what altitude is the crater lake atop Licancabur on the Bolivian Altiplano?

5. Where does the author mention that a robin reared chicks?

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