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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Deer in the Headlights," when were the ancestors of the herd the author observed brought to the estate?
(a) 15th century.
(b) 17th century.
(c) 16th century.
(d) 18th century.

2. In what country did the author see a stuffed white stork with its neck piereced by a wooden spear?
(a) Germany.
(b) Sweden.
(c) France.
(d) Italy.

3. In "The Arrow-Stork," how much of their lives might some cuckoos spend in the countries of origin?
(a) 5%.
(b) 15%.
(c) 25%.
(d) 10%.

4. What percentage of an increase in hate crimes occurred after the Brexit vote?
(a) 31%.
(b) 26%.
(c) 19%.
(d) 42%.

5. In "Wicken," how many acres of Wicken Fen had been returned to its former wetland state?
(a) Around 11,000.
(b) 14,000.
(c) About 13,000.
(d) 22,000.

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

7. In "Sun Birds and Cashmere Spheres," how many years after Macdonald visited stands of poplars looking for orioles was there only one nest remaining?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 3 years.
(c) 5 years.
(d) 4 years.

8. When did the British Trust for Ornithology begin fitting satellite tags to Britsh-trapped cuckoos?
(a) 2009.
(b) 2000.
(c) 2011.
(d) 2005.

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

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

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

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

13. How many beakfuls of mud might it take a Martin to build a nest?
(a) 1,500.
(b) 900.
(c) 1,000 or so.
(d) About 1,200.

14. When did Maxwell Knight write Taming and Handling Animals?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1958.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1960.

15. In "Storm," when was the author driving?
(a) Summer.
(b) Fall.
(c) Spring.
(d) Winter.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the mid-1970s, what trees did the author watch with her mother being torn up and burned?

2. Where did the author like to see swans in the winter?

3. In America, about how many people died every year after their vehicles collided with deer?

4. How close could the author get to the deer in "Deer in the Headlights"?

5. How many people were at the passport office in "Murmurations"?

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