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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In "The Observatory," how long did the author sit with a swan?
(a) 10 minutes.
(b) 5 minutes.
(c) 15 minutes.
(d) 20 minutes.

3. How close could the author get to the deer in "Deer in the Headlights"?
(a) 175 yards.
(b) 100 yards.
(c) 150 yards.
(d) 50 yards.

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

5. How big does the author say that swans can be in "The Observatory"?
(a) Size of a large dog.
(b) Size of a breadbox.
(c) Size of a small bush.
(d) Size of a cat.

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

7. When did the royal ownership of swans date back to?
(a) 15th century.
(b) At least the 12th century.
(c) 14th century.
(d) Around the 11th century.

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

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

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

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

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

13. In "The Observatory," what did a swan do when it approached Macdonald?
(a) Bumped her.
(b) Fell asleep.
(c) Pushed her.
(d) Made a bugle call.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When did the British Trust for Ornithology begin fitting satellite tags to Britsh-trapped cuckoos?

4. How far might loggerhead turtles swim from their feeding grounds of Mexico?

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

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