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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 more women than men, according to the author in "Symptomatic", experience migraines?
(a) 4 times.
(b) 5 times.
(c) 2 times.
(d) 3 times.

2. How old was the author when she saw that the meadow at Tekels Park was destroyed?
(a) 37.
(b) 40s.
(c) 42.
(d) 50s.

3. When did Samuel Tyalor Coleridge write of a murmuration?
(a) 1799.
(b) 1793.
(c) 1787.
(d) 1785.

4. Where did Macdonald join Cabrol and a team for an expedition to high-altitude desert to test methods of detecting life on Mars?
(a) Chile.
(b) Argentina.
(c) Peru.
(d) Colombia.

5. In "Eclipse," how old was the author when she first planned to see a total solar eclipse?
(a) Late 30s.
(b) Late 20s.
(c) Early 30s.
(d) Early 20s.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the "Introduction," what extinction does the author say that we are living through?

2. How old was Nathalie Cabrol when she watched the first moon landing on television?

3. In "Ants," what was feeding on flying ants?

4. What was the weather like at the beginning of "Sex, Death, Mushrooms"?

5. In "The Student's Tale," what did the refugee do when he learned that the School for Clinical Medicine was closed?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the author say about the "Tribute of Light" and its danger to birds?

2. What did a boyfriend show Macdonald in "Nothing Like a Pig," and how did Macdonald describe the creature?

3. How does the author say that field guides need to be learned to read?

4. How does the author describe a column of flying ants?

5. What does the author say that winter woods can teach her?

6. When were boars illegally dumped in the Forest of Dean, and how did the forest commission try to manage them?

7. Who is Nathalie Cabrol?

8. What symptoms did the author have preceeding a migraine?

9. When did the author first see boxing hares, and what did she learn about them?

10. When does the author like to walk in the woods, and what have her experiences been like?

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