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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Cherry Stones to What Animals Taught Me.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Ants," what was feeding on flying ants?
(a) Herring gulls.
(b) Bluebirds.
(c) Barn swallows.
(d) Nuthatches.

2. Where did Macdonald's parents buy a house in 1976?
(a) Camberley, Surrey.
(b) Abbotswood, Surrey.
(c) Maybury, Surrey.
(d) Earlswood, Surrey.

3. When did legislation make keeping wild-trapped British birds illegal?
(a) 1970s.
(b) 1990s.
(c) 1960s.
(d) 1980s.

4. When did Cabrol watch a television documentary about the crater lake atop Licancabur on the Bolivian Altiplano?
(a) 1999.
(b) 2000.
(c) 2002.
(d) 2001.

5. In "The Observatory," what type of swans did the author observe?
(a) Mute.
(b) Coscoroba.
(c) Whopper and Bewick's.
(d) Black-necked and black.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of "Field Guides," where was the author observing birds?

2. In "Murmurations," where did the author remember watching starlings come to roost?

3. In "Nests," when did a woman friend say that she and her friends used to take eggs from birds' nests?

4. At the end of "Deer in the Headlights," what book did the author buy?

5. Which of the author's relatives was distressed by storms because of the reminder of the Blitz?

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