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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What percent of the people who experience migraines experience visual disturbances with their headaches?
(a) 45%.
(b) 30%.
(c) 35%.
(d) 25%.

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

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

4. Where did Cabrol study for her Ph.D?
(a) Sorbonne.
(b) Penn State.
(c) University of Edinburgh.
(d) University of Washington.

5. In the "Introduction," what extinction does the author say that we are living through?
(a) 5th.
(b) 4th.
(c) 6th.
(d) 3rd.

6. 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) Seals.
(b) Sea lions.
(c) Dolphins.
(d) Walrus.

7. In Oregon, how much land did a honey fungus cover?
(a) Almost 4 square miles.
(b) 7 square miles.
(c) 2 square miles.
(d) About 5 square miles.

8. What did the author see flying in the air in "Ants"?
(a) Sparrows.
(b) Flying ants.
(c) Hawks.
(d) Swallows.

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

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

11. In "Inspector Calls," how old was the son of prospective tenants?
(a) 8.
(b) 7.
(c) 9.
(d) 6.

12. If writers have subjects that underlie everything they write, what does the author say that her subject is?
(a) Hope.
(b) Love.
(c) Home.
(d) Death.

13. In "Nothing Like a Pig," what season was it?
(a) Winter.
(b) Summer.
(c) Spring.
(d) Autumn.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a boyfriend show Macdonald in the woods in "Nothing Like a Pig"?

2. How old was Nathalie Cabrol when she watched the first moon landing on television?

3. Including the author, how many people viewed an eclipse in Turkey together?

4. When did Macdonald and her parents leave Tekels Park?

5. Where did Macdonald's parents buy a house in 1976?

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