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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How high were herring gulls flying in "Ants"?
(a) Rooftop height.
(b) 300 feet.
(c) 200 feet.
(d) Rooftop and 100s of feet.

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

3. Where does the author mention that a robin reared chicks?
(a) Old kettle.
(b) Light pole.
(c) An old teapot.
(d) Traffic light.

4. In "Symptomatic," what did the author hear roar that at first she attributed to a migraine she had earlier?
(a) Pigeons.
(b) Deer.
(c) Bears.
(d) Bats.

5. How many times will the queen of a common black ant mate?
(a) Twice.
(b) Once.
(c) 3 times.
(d) 4 times.

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

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

8. 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.

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

10. In "Nests," what might kites use to decorate their tree platforms?
(a) Twine.
(b) Lengths of wire.
(c) Cigarette butts.
(d) Underwear stolen from washing lines.

11. Including the author, how many people viewed an eclipse in Turkey together?
(a) 11.
(b) 100s.
(c) 50.
(d) 4.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Nothing Like a Pig," what season was it?

2. How many years did it take the author to understand her premenstrual pattern?

3. 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?

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

5. At what UV level did the World Health Organization warn against being outside?

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