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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How many times has the authoir had visual disturbances with her migraines?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.
2. When was Florence Merriam's Birds Through an Opera-Glass published?
(a) 1887.
(b) 1889.
(c) 1893.
(d) 1891.
3. When was Cabrol the chief scientist on a team testing an experimental rover in the Atacama Desert?
(a) 2003.
(b) 2002.
(c) 2004.
(d) 2001.
4. How many farm-reared boars were secretly and illegally dumped in the Forest of Dean in 2004?
(a) 20.
(b) 35.
(c) 45.
(d) 60.
5. How many different plant species ae found in Australia?
(a) 23,000.
(b) 30,000.
(c) 41,000.
(d) 19,000.
Short Answer Questions
1. When was the solar eclipse that was dubbed "The Great American Eclipse" (75)?
2. In the "Introduction," what extinction does the author say that we are living through?
3. Where did Macdonald join Cabrol and a team for an expedition to high-altitude desert to test methods of detecting life on Mars?
4. Where does the author mention that a robin reared chicks?
5. In "In Her Orbit," what company did Fredrik Rehnmark, a mechanical engineer, work for?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the author say that winter woods can teach her?
2. How did boars spread after being introducted to New Hampshire in the 1890s?
3. When does the author like to walk in the woods, and what have her experiences been like?
4. How does the author say that field guides need to be learned to read?
5. What expedition did Macdonald go on with Nathalie Cabrol?
6. What does the author say are the pros and cons of electronic field guides?
7. What symptoms did the author have preceeding a migraine?
8. What did the author say about the "Tribute of Light" and its danger to birds?
9. With whom and how did the author hunt for mushrooms in "Sex, Death, Mushrooms"?
10. What is the danger of picking mushrooms to eat?
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