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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many years after viewing the Cornwall eclipse, did the author view an eclipse in Turkey?
(a) 5.
(b) 11.
(c) 7.
(d) 13.

2. What does a boyfriend show Macdonald in the woods in "Nothing Like a Pig"?
(a) Boar.
(b) Fox.
(c) Bank vole.
(d) Badger.

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

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

5. How many times has the authoir had visual disturbances with her migraines?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. When Macdonald watched birds migrating with Farnsworth in "High-Rise," about how many birds were there per cubic mile?
(a) 500 to 900.
(b) 760.
(c) 1,000 to 2,000.
(d) 890.

13. In "In Her Orbit," what company did Fredrik Rehnmark, a mechanical engineer, work for?
(a) Honeybee Robotics.
(b) Zipline.
(c) Sphero.
(d) Simbe Robotics.

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

15. When did the author view with her father the first total eclipse to cross the UK in over 70 years?
(a) 2003.
(b) 1997.
(c) 2001.
(d) 1999.

Short Answer Questions

1. If writers have subjects that underlie everything they write, what does the author say that her subject is?

2. 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?

3. When did the World Health Organization create a definition of healthy that referred to no one?

4. How old was the author when she saw that the meadow at Tekels Park was destroyed?

5. When was the eclipse in India that forced an observer to retreat to his room and plunge his head into water?

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