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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the British Trust for Ornithology formed?
(a) 1936.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1933.

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

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

4. In "Nestboxes," from where did the author order Martin nextboxes?
(a) University.
(b) Catalog.
(c) Garden center.
(d) Internet.

5. In "The Falcon and the Tower," how many breeding pairs of peregrines were in New York City?
(a) Around 15.
(b) 22.
(c) 31.
(d) About 20.

6. How far might loggerhead turtles swim from their feeding grounds of Mexico?
(a) 7,500 miles.
(b) 6,200 miles.
(c) 8,700 miles.
(d) 10,100 miles.

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

8. Where did the author remember in "Nestboxes" staying where there was a pair of nesting laughing doves?
(a) Egypt.
(b) India.
(c) South Africa.
(d) Madagascar.

9. When did Maxwell Knight, an intelligence officer, place agents in various organizations?
(a) 1940s to 1980s.
(b) 1920s to 1950s.
(c) 1930s to end of World War II.
(d) 1950s to 1970s.

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

11. When did Julian Huxley says that if you did not know birds you did not know your country?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1942.

12. After swifts leave their nest hole, how long will they fly?
(a) 3 or 4 years.
(b) 1 year.
(c) 2 or 3 years.
(d) 18 months.

13. How old was a cygnet caught in "Swan Upping"?
(a) 18 weeks.
(b) 20 weeks.
(c) 12 weeks.
(d) 23 weeks.

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

15. When did Stanley Spencer leave the painting Swan Upping at Cookham unfinished in his bedroom?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1914.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1916.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Macdonald mention that she saw the breath of a fallow buck in "Deer in the Headlights"?

2. In what country did the author see a stuffed white stork with its neck piereced by a wooden spear?

3. In "Storm," when was the author driving?

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

5. In "A Handful of Corn," what creatures did the author's neighbor, Mrs. Leslie-Smith, entice to her garden with cookies?

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