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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. In America, about how many people died every year after their vehicles collided with deer?
(a) Around 200,000.
(b) 315,000.
(c) 300,000.
(d) About 150,000.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After swifts leave their nest hole, how long will they fly?

2. What area did Glenn Albrecht mention that became unrecognizable through environmental change?

3. How many beakfuls of mud might it take a Martin to build a nest?

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

5. In "Deer in the Headlights," when was there a financial crash?

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