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

2. What does Macdonald say that swifts weigh?
(a) About 40 grams.
(b) Around 50 grams.
(c) 35 grams.
(d) 45 grams.

3. In "The Observatory," how long did the author sit with a swan?
(a) 10 minutes.
(b) 15 minutes.
(c) 5 minutes.
(d) 20 minutes.

4. In "Swan Upping," how old did a waterman say that his swan hook was that broke?
(a) 100 to 150 years old.
(b) 90 years old.
(c) 80 to 100 years old.
(d) 75 years old.

5. In "Wicken," how many acres of Wicken Fen had been returned to its former wetland state?
(a) 22,000.
(b) Around 11,000.
(c) 14,000.
(d) About 13,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the author hear her first nightingale singing during a storm?

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

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

4. When did Maxwell Knight, an intelligence officer, place agents in various organizations?

5. What did Macdonald look for in a disused chalk quarry in "In Spight of Prisons"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is swan upping?

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

4. How were elephant seals involved in a project studying climate change in West Antarctica?

5. What happened to the orioles in Britain?

6. How does the author describe vesper flights?

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

8. In "Storm," what could the author see as she drove on the M25?

9. What were the nestboxes like that Macdonald ordered for house martins?

10. Who was Maxwell Knight?

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