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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 close could the author get to the deer in "Deer in the Headlights"?
(a) 150 yards.
(b) 175 yards.
(c) 100 yards.
(d) 50 yards.

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

3. In "Deer in the Headlights," what was the name of Macdonald's friend who hit a deer?
(a) Isabella.
(b) Margaret.
(c) Rachelle.
(d) Megan.

4. How long ago did the author say in "Deer in the Headlights" that images of deer started appearing on soft furnishings and homeware?
(a) 5 years.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 11 years.
(d) 8 years.

5. In America, about how many people died every year after their vehicles collided with deer?
(a) 300,000.
(b) Around 200,000.
(c) About 150,000.
(d) 315,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the British Trust for Ornithology begin fitting satellite tags to Britsh-trapped cuckoos?

2. When did Julian Huxley says that if you did not know birds you did not know your country?

3. What does Macdonald say that swifts weigh?

4. Where did the author like to see swans in the winter?

5. In "Storm," what birds did the author see when driving?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the author see on display in a university museum in Rostock, Germany?

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

3. When was the British Trust for Ornithology established, and what was its purpose?

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

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

6. What happened to the orioles in Britain?

7. Who was Maxwell Knight?

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

9. How did the author's father tell her that she could figure out how far away a storm was?

10. Why do swans flock to the Welney Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust reserve in the winter?

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