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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 many people were at the passport office in "Murmurations"?
(a) 25.
(b) 30.
(c) 27.
(d) 34.
2. In America, about how many people died every year after their vehicles collided with deer?
(a) 300,000.
(b) Around 200,000.
(c) 315,000.
(d) About 150,000.
3. What percentage of an increase in hate crimes occurred after the Brexit vote?
(a) 42%.
(b) 26%.
(c) 31%.
(d) 19%.
4. In what country did the author see a stuffed white stork with its neck piereced by a wooden spear?
(a) Italy.
(b) France.
(c) Sweden.
(d) Germany.
5. What did Macdonald look for in a disused chalk quarry in "In Spight of Prisons"?
(a) Wood-colored beetles.
(b) Green longhorn moths.
(c) Glow-worms.
(d) Cockchafters.
Short Answer Questions
1. How close could the author get to the deer in "Deer in the Headlights"?
2. How many nests might a single cuckoo lay eggs?
3. When did the British Trust for Ornithology begin fitting satellite tags to Britsh-trapped cuckoos?
4. In "Deer in the Headlights," what was the name of Macdonald's friend who hit a deer?
5. What type of swans were on the Thames?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Macdonald say about allergies?
2. How does the author describe vesper flights?
3. What did upping swans used to include?
4. How did the author's father tell her that she could figure out how far away a storm was?
5. What encounter did Macdonald have with a swan at the Jesus Lock?
6. What were the nestboxes like that Macdonald ordered for house martins?
7. When was the British Trust for Ornithology established, and what was its purpose?
8. What did the author and her mother see and hear in "Berries" while running errands?
9. What did the author see on display in a university museum in Rostock, Germany?
10. In "Storm," what could the author see as she drove on the M25?
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