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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the wavelength of transmitted radar waves shorten to when they started getting radar reflections of birds?
(a) 12 centimeters.
(b) 8 centimeters.
(c) 5 centimeters.
(d) 10 centimeters.

2. In "The Falcon and the Tower," where was the author?
(a) Scotland.
(b) Wales.
(c) Ireland.
(d) Normandy.

3. How many eggs will a female glow-worm lay before dying?
(a) 80 to 100.
(b) 90 to 140.
(c) 75 to 125.
(d) 50 to 150.

4. What date did the author observe swan upping?
(a) July 9.
(b) July 19.
(c) July 23.
(d) July 1.

5. If there was five seconds between lightning and thunder, how far away would the storm be?
(a) 1/2 mile.
(b) 2 miles.
(c) A mile.
(d) 1/4 mile.

6. In winter, where do European swifts spend a few month in winter?
(a) Over the forests and fields of the Congo.
(b) Near the Nile.
(c) Their nests.
(d) On their breeding grounds.

7. What area did Glenn Albrecht mention that became unrecognizable through environmental change?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) New South Wales.
(c) Tennessee.
(d) South Africa.

8. Where did Macdonald once find a dead swift?
(a) Under a bridge over the River Lyne.
(b) Backyard.
(c) Under a bridge over the River Thames.
(d) Woods.

9. In "The Observatory," what type of swans did the author observe?
(a) Coscoroba.
(b) Whopper and Bewick's.
(c) Black-necked and black.
(d) Mute.

10. In "A Cuckoo in the House," over the past quarter of a century, how many cuckoos had been lost?
(a) 75%.
(b) About 70%.
(c) 80%.
(d) More than 60%.

11. How many people were at the passport office in "Murmurations"?
(a) 25.
(b) 30.
(c) 34.
(d) 27.

12. When did the author hear her first nightingale singing during a storm?
(a) 1990s.
(b) 1960s.
(c) 1980s.
(d) 1970s.

13. What did Macdonald look for in a disused chalk quarry in "In Spight of Prisons"?
(a) Cockchafters.
(b) Green longhorn moths.
(c) Glow-worms.
(d) Wood-colored beetles.

14. Where did Eamonn first see a wild peregrine as a child?
(a) Old factory.
(b) Near a waterfall.
(c) Dublin gasometer.
(d) Wicklow Mountains.

15. Where did the author like to see swans in the winter?
(a) Welney.
(b) Martin Mere.
(c) Caerlaverock.
(d) Slimbridge.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Nestboxes," from where did the author order Martin nextboxes?

2. How did a British officer survive prison camps in Germany?

3. In "Lost, But Catching Up," what did the author just discover that she was allergic to?

4. In "Storm," what birds did the author see when driving?

5. When did the pesticide DDT decimate peregrine populations?

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