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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Macdonald mention that she saw the breath of a fallow buck in "Deer in the Headlights"?
(a) 19 years ago.
(b) 21 years ago.
(c) Nearly 20 years ago.
(d) About 18 years ago.

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

3. In "Swan Upping," how old did a waterman say that his swan hook was that broke?
(a) 80 to 100 years old.
(b) 75 years old.
(c) 90 years old.
(d) 100 to 150 years old.

4. In "A Handful of Corn," what creatures did the author's neighbor, Mrs. Leslie-Smith, entice to her garden with cookies?
(a) Skunks.
(b) Moles.
(c) Badgers.
(d) Minks.

5. In "Deer in the Headlights," what was the name of Macdonald's friend who hit a deer?
(a) Rachelle.
(b) Isabella.
(c) Megan.
(d) Margaret.

6. In "Nestboxes," what 19th-century-naturalist installed sand martin nest pipes and other avian households at his Yorkshire estate?
(a) William Beebe.
(b) Gerald Durrell.
(c) Charles Waterton.
(d) John Burroughs.

7. When did Luit Buurma begin making radar observations in the Netherlands for flight safety purposes?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1981.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1978.

8. What type of birds nested on Dublin's Poolbeg Power Station?
(a) Gulls.
(b) Peregrine falcons.
(c) Pigeons.
(d) Ospreys.

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

10. When did Norfolk farmers learn that the skylarks in their fields were migrants from the Continent?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1934.

11. In "Murmurations," what time did a flock of plovers fly low?
(a) 9:15 a.m.
(b) 9:05 a.m.
(c) 8:20 a.m.
(d) 8:00 a.m.

12. How long was the journey to catch all the swans on the upper reaches of the River Thames?
(a) 5 days.
(b) 7 days.
(c) 3 days.
(d) 2 days.

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

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

15. In "Wicken," what did the author and her guests see when they walked Wicken Fen floating past them?
(a) Eagle.
(b) Hawk.
(c) Barn owl.
(d) Falcon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of swans were on the Thames?

2. In "The Arrow-Stork," how much of their lives might some cuckoos spend in the countries of origin?

3. In "Wicken," how many acres of Wicken Fen had been returned to its former wetland state?

4. What percentage of an increase in hate crimes occurred after the Brexit vote?

5. When did Stanley Spencer leave the painting Swan Upping at Cookham unfinished in his bedroom?

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