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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 far might loggerhead turtles swim from their feeding grounds of Mexico?
(a) 6,200 miles.
(b) 8,700 miles.
(c) 10,100 miles.
(d) 7,500 miles.

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

3. How old was a cygnet caught in "Swan Upping"?
(a) 18 weeks.
(b) 12 weeks.
(c) 23 weeks.
(d) 20 weeks.

4. When did Maxwell Knight, an intelligence officer, place agents in various organizations?
(a) 1950s to 1970s.
(b) 1920s to 1950s.
(c) 1930s to end of World War II.
(d) 1940s to 1980s.

5. When did the British Trust for Ornithology begin fitting satellite tags to Britsh-trapped cuckoos?
(a) 2000.
(b) 2011.
(c) 2005.
(d) 2009.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the mid-1970s, what trees did the author watch with her mother being torn up and burned?

2. How did a British officer survive prison camps in Germany?

3. Where did Macdonald once find a dead swift?

4. When did Stanley Spencer leave the painting Swan Upping at Cookham unfinished in his bedroom?

5. In "A Handful of Corn," what creatures did the author's neighbor, Mrs. Leslie-Smith, entice to her garden with cookies?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is swan upping?

2. How does the author describe the painting Swan Upping at Cookham?

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

4. How does the author describe the Wicken fens through the ages?

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

6. What happened to the orioles in Britain?

7. Why does Macdonald state that deer are dangerous animals?

8. Who was Maxwell Knight?

9. How does Macdonald compare waiting for a storm and waiting for other things in "Storm"?

10. When Macdonald and her brother were children, how did they observe blue tits?

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