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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. When did Norfolk farmers learn that the skylarks in their fields were migrants from the Continent?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1922.

2. How many beakfuls of mud might it take a Martin to build a nest?
(a) 900.
(b) About 1,200.
(c) 1,000 or so.
(d) 1,500.

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

4. When did Stanley Spencer leave the painting Swan Upping at Cookham unfinished in his bedroom?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1914.
(d) 1916.

5. Which of the author's relatives was distressed by storms because of the reminder of the Blitz?
(a) Grandmother.
(b) Aunt.
(c) Great-uncle.
(d) Grandfather.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Swan Upping," how old did a waterman say that his swan hook was that broke?

2. In "Wicken," what did the author and her guests see when they walked Wicken Fen floating past them?

3. When did Julian Huxley says that if you did not know birds you did not know your country?

4. When was the British Trust for Ornithology formed?

5. How many eggs will a female glow-worm lay before dying?

Short Essay Questions

1. What encounter did Macdonald have with a swan at the Jesus Lock?

2. Who was Maxwell Knight?

3. What happened to the orioles in Britain?

4. What does Macdonald say that she did and did not know about deer?

5. How did the author's father tell her that she could figure out how far away a storm was?

6. Where were peregrine falcons nesting in "The Falcon and the Tower"?

7. What did David Lack discover when working during the war on the early-warning chain of coast-watching radar stations?

8. What did the author see on display in a university museum in Rostock, Germany?

9. What did upping swans used to include?

10. What did the author search for in a disused chalk quarry?

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