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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author describe the color of chanterelles in "Sex, Death, Mushrooms"?

2. When did Cabrol watch a television documentary about the crater lake atop Licancabur on the Bolivian Altiplano?

3. How many farm-reared boars were secretly and illegally dumped in the Forest of Dean in 2004?

4. When Macdonald watched birds migrating with Farnsworth in "High-Rise," about how many birds were there per cubic mile?

5. During the expedition where the author joined Cabrol, how many hours a night was Cabrol sleeping?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author say that field guides need to be learned to read?

2. When does the author like to walk in the woods, and what have her experiences been like?

3. What did the author say about the "Tribute of Light" and its danger to birds?

4. What did a boyfriend show Macdonald in "Nothing Like a Pig," and how did Macdonald describe the creature?

5. What does the author say are the pros and cons of electronic field guides?

6. With whom and how did the author hunt for mushrooms in "Sex, Death, Mushrooms"?

7. Who did the author interview in "The Student's Tale"?

8. When did the author first see boxing hares, and what did she learn about them?

9. What is the danger of picking mushrooms to eat?

10. Why does the author believe that science and literature are needed to document extinctions?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Swifts were birds that could fly for months at a time. Why did the author compare swifts to aliens? When would swifts rise and fly high in the sky? Why were these called vesper flights? What was the purpose of vesper flights?

Essay Topic 2

Macdonald discusses the sixth extinction. What is the sixth extinction? Why and how does the author believe science and literature need to communicate what is being lost in the sixth extinction?

Essay Topic 3

What a reader knows about events and people is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view in the book? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and the author?

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