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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. What highway was Macdonald driving in "Storm"?
(a) M57.
(b) M25.
(c) M8.
(d) M32.
2. How long would whoopers swans fly when crossing the North Atlantic to England?
(a) 15 hours.
(b) 8 hours.
(c) 10 hours.
(d) 12 hours.
3. How many beakfuls of mud might it take a Martin to build a nest?
(a) 900.
(b) 1,500.
(c) 1,000 or so.
(d) About 1,200.
4. Where did the author like to see swans in the winter?
(a) Slimbridge.
(b) Martin Mere.
(c) Caerlaverock.
(d) Welney.
5. In America, about how many people died every year after their vehicles collided with deer?
(a) 315,000.
(b) About 150,000.
(c) 300,000.
(d) Around 200,000.
Short Answer Questions
1. What area did Glenn Albrecht mention that became unrecognizable through environmental change?
2. In what country did the author see a stuffed white stork with its neck piereced by a wooden spear?
3. In "The Observatory," how long did the author sit with a swan?
4. What did the wavelength of transmitted radar waves shorten to when they started getting radar reflections of birds?
5. In winter, where do European swifts spend a few month in winter?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where were peregrine falcons nesting in "The Falcon and the Tower"?
2. Why does Macdonald state that deer are dangerous animals?
3. What did the author see on display in a university museum in Rostock, Germany?
4. What did the author search for in a disused chalk quarry?
5. What did the author and her mother see and hear in "Berries" while running errands?
6. What did David Lack discover when working during the war on the early-warning chain of coast-watching radar stations?
7. What were the nestboxes like that Macdonald ordered for house martins?
8. What happened to the orioles in Britain?
9. What encounter did Macdonald have with a swan at the Jesus Lock?
10. How does the author describe the painting Swan Upping at Cookham?
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