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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 fast was the author driving in "Storm"?
2. In "Murmurations," what time did a flock of plovers fly low?
3. What did the wavelength of transmitted radar waves shorten to when they started getting radar reflections of birds?
4. When did Julian Huxley says that if you did not know birds you did not know your country?
5. How did a British officer survive prison camps in Germany?
Short Essay Questions
1. In "Storm," what could the author see as she drove on the M25?
2. Who was Maxwell Knight?
3. How does the author describe vesper flights?
4. What did David Lack discover when working during the war on the early-warning chain of coast-watching radar stations?
5. Why do swans flock to the Welney Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust reserve in the winter?
6. Where were peregrine falcons nesting in "The Falcon and the Tower"?
7. How does the author describe the Wicken fens through the ages?
8. What does Macdonald say that she did and did not know about deer?
9. What did the author search for in a disused chalk quarry?
10. What did the author see on display in a university museum in Rostock, Germany?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why did the author become obsessed with a painting called Swan Upping at Cookham? What did the author communicate about the past and Brexit through the tradition of swan upping?
Essay Topic 2
The author observed falcons nesting at an abandoned power station. Why did peregrine falcons begin nesting in cities and other urban areas? What did the change in habitat for their nests reveal about adaptation?
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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