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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ants to Hares.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. If writers have subjects that underlie everything they write, what does the author say that her subject is?
(a) Hope.
(b) Love.
(c) Death.
(d) Home.

2. What was a chaffinch nest made from that the author collected in "Nests"?
(a) Horsehair, moss, lichen, and pigeon feathers.
(b) Leaves, straw, and grass clippings.
(c) Straw, soft twigs, and clay.
(d) Threads, hair, and feathers.

3. Where did the author like to walk before nightfall every New Year's Day?
(a) City streets.
(b) Woods.
(c) Tekels Park.
(d) Fields behind her home.

4. Including the author, how many people viewed an eclipse in Turkey together?
(a) 11.
(b) 50.
(c) 100s.
(d) 4.

5. How many times will the queen of a common black ant mate?
(a) Once.
(b) 4 times.
(c) Twice.
(d) 3 times.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the World Health Organization create a definition of healthy that referred to no one?

2. Where did Cabrol study for her Ph.D?

3. When did Macdonald and her parents leave Tekels Park?

4. At the end of "Sex, Death, Mushrooms," what was the last fungus that the author spotted?

5. In "Symptomatic," what did the author hear roar that at first she attributed to a migraine she had earlier?

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