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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. In "Murmurations," where did the author remember watching starlings come to roost?
(a) Brighton.
(b) Harwich.
(c) Margate.
(d) Liverpool.

2. In "A Handful of Corn," what creatures did the author's neighbor, Mrs. Leslie-Smith, entice to her garden with cookies?
(a) Skunks.
(b) Moles.
(c) Minks.
(d) Badgers.

3. When did Maxwell Knight, an intelligence officer, place agents in various organizations?
(a) 1950s to 1970s.
(b) 1940s to 1980s.
(c) 1920s to 1950s.
(d) 1930s to end of World War II.

4. When did the author mention that most deer-vehicle collisions occured?
(a) Between nightfall and midnight and just before dawn.
(b) Just after sunset.
(c) Between 8 p.m. and midnight.
(d) Just before dawn.

5. In "Sun Birds and Cashmere Spheres," how many years after Macdonald visited stands of poplars looking for orioles was there only one nest remaining?
(a) 3 years.
(b) 5 years.
(c) 2 years.
(d) 4 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Arrow-Stork," how much of their lives might some cuckoos spend in the countries of origin?

2. In America, about how many people died every year after their vehicles collided with deer?

3. What does Macdonald say that swifts weigh?

4. In "Murmurations," what time did a flock of plovers fly low?

5. In "Nestboxes," what 19th-century-naturalist installed sand martin nest pipes and other avian households at his Yorkshire estate?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the author and her mother see and hear in "Berries" while running errands?

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

3. What does Macdonald say about allergies?

4. How does Macdonald compare waiting for a storm and waiting for other things in "Storm"?

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

6. What does Macdonald say that she did and did not know about deer?

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

8. What were the nestboxes like that Macdonald ordered for house martins?

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

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

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