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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) 1970s.
(b) 1990s.
(c) 1980s.
(d) 1960s.

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

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

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

5. In "Berries," when did the author say was the last time that she and her mother saw wax-wings?
(a) 9 years ago.
(b) 8 years ago.
(c) 5 years ago.
(d) 3 years ago.

6. At the end of "Deer in the Headlights," what book did the author buy?
(a) Understanding Deer.
(b) The Hidden Life of Deer.
(c) An Anthology of Deer.
(d) The Radiant Lives of Deer.

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

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

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

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

11. How fast was the author driving in "Storm"?
(a) 55 miles an hour.
(b) 60 miles an hour.
(c) 70 miles an hour.
(d) 65 miles an hour.

12. How many eggs will a female glow-worm lay before dying?
(a) 80 to 100.
(b) 90 to 140.
(c) 75 to 125.
(d) 50 to 150.

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

14. How long could the author ride on a horse before her allergies got too severe to continue riding?
(a) 20 minutes.
(b) 25 minutes.
(c) 30 minutes.
(d) 5 minutes.

15. How many nests might a single cuckoo lay eggs?
(a) Around 10.
(b) As many as 12.
(c) 7 or 8.
(d) 5 or 6.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Luit Buurma begin making radar observations in the Netherlands for flight safety purposes?

2. What did the wavelength of transmitted radar waves shorten to when they started getting radar reflections of birds?

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

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

5. Where did Macdonald once find a dead swift?

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