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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. Where did the author like to see swans in the winter?
(a) Martin Mere.
(b) Caerlaverock.
(c) Slimbridge.
(d) Welney.
2. How many eggs will a female glow-worm lay before dying?
(a) 50 to 150.
(b) 80 to 100.
(c) 90 to 140.
(d) 75 to 125.
3. How far might loggerhead turtles swim from their feeding grounds of Mexico?
(a) 10,100 miles.
(b) 7,500 miles.
(c) 6,200 miles.
(d) 8,700 miles.
4. In "Berries," when did the author say was the last time that she and her mother saw wax-wings?
(a) 9 years ago.
(b) 3 years ago.
(c) 5 years ago.
(d) 8 years ago.
5. When did Norfolk farmers learn that the skylarks in their fields were migrants from the Continent?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1929.
Short Answer Questions
1. How close could the author get to the deer in "Deer in the Headlights"?
2. When did Julian Huxley says that if you did not know birds you did not know your country?
3. In "The Falcon and the Tower," how many breeding pairs of peregrines were in New York City?
4. In "A Handful of Corn," what creatures did the author's neighbor, Mrs. Leslie-Smith, entice to her garden with cookies?
5. In "Nestboxes," from where did the author order Martin nextboxes?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the author describe the Wicken fens through the ages?
2. When Macdonald and her brother were children, how did they observe blue tits?
3. What did upping swans used to include?
4. When was the British Trust for Ornithology established, and what was its purpose?
5. What happened to the orioles in Britain?
6. How does Macdonald compare waiting for a storm and waiting for other things in "Storm"?
7. What did David Lack discover when working during the war on the early-warning chain of coast-watching radar stations?
8. Where were peregrine falcons nesting in "The Falcon and the Tower"?
9. How did the author's father tell her that she could figure out how far away a storm was?
10. What did the author search for in a disused chalk quarry?
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