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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 did a British officer survive prison camps in Germany?
(a) Writing a journal.
(b) Watching birds.
(c) Digging a tunnel.
(d) Watching rats.

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

3. Where did Eamonn first see a wild peregrine as a child?
(a) Dublin gasometer.
(b) Near a waterfall.
(c) Old factory.
(d) Wicklow Mountains.

4. In the mid-1970s, what trees did the author watch with her mother being torn up and burned?
(a) Ash.
(b) Birch.
(c) Alders.
(d) Dutch elm.

5. How long would whoopers swans fly when crossing the North Atlantic to England?
(a) 10 hours.
(b) 12 hours.
(c) 15 hours.
(d) 8 hours.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many nests might a single cuckoo lay eggs?

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

3. In "A Cuckoo in the House," over the past quarter of a century, how many cuckoos had been lost?

4. What did the wavelength of transmitted radar waves shorten to when they started getting radar reflections of birds?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who was Maxwell Knight?

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

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

5. How does the author describe vesper flights?

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

7. What is swan upping?

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

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

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

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