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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What was a chaffinch nest made from that the author collected in "Nests"?
(a) Threads, hair, and feathers.
(b) Horsehair, moss, lichen, and pigeon feathers.
(c) Leaves, straw, and grass clippings.
(d) Straw, soft twigs, and clay.
2. How many boars were shot in the Forest of Dean between 2014 and 2015?
(a) 274.
(b) 361.
(c) 411.
(d) 198.
3. In "In Her Orbit," what company did Fredrik Rehnmark, a mechanical engineer, work for?
(a) Simbe Robotics.
(b) Sphero.
(c) Zipline.
(d) Honeybee Robotics.
4. When was the solar eclipse that was dubbed "The Great American Eclipse" (75)?
(a) 2016.
(b) 2018.
(c) 2017.
(d) 2015.
5. In "Human Flock," where was the author?
(a) Hungary.
(b) Austria.
(c) Poland.
(d) Czech Republic.
6. How many more women than men, according to the author in "Symptomatic", experience migraines?
(a) 3 times.
(b) 5 times.
(c) 2 times.
(d) 4 times.
7. Where did the author like to walk before nightfall every New Year's Day?
(a) City streets.
(b) Tekels Park.
(c) Fields behind her home.
(d) Woods.
8. How fast can hares run?
(a) 40 miles an hour.
(b) 30 miles an hour.
(c) 15 miles an hour.
(d) 25 miles an hour.
9. How long did George Waterston sit with his colleagues by the first Scottish osprey nest and keep it under observation through the telescopic sights of rifles?
(a) 30 years.
(b) 5 years.
(c) 50 years.
(d) 20 years.
10. When did Samuel Tyalor Coleridge write of a murmuration?
(a) 1785.
(b) 1793.
(c) 1787.
(d) 1799.
11. When were boars introducted to New Hampshire?
(a) 1890s.
(b) 1880s.
(c) 1870s.
(d) 1860s.
12. Where did the author see a dunnock nest in "Nests"?
(a) Forsythia bush.
(b) Evergreen tree.
(c) Prarie grasses.
(d) Eaves trough.
13. What did the author see flying in the air in "Ants"?
(a) Flying ants.
(b) Swallows.
(c) Hawks.
(d) Sparrows.
14. In "Ants," what was feeding on flying ants?
(a) Bluebirds.
(b) Barn swallows.
(c) Nuthatches.
(d) Herring gulls.
15. In Oregon, how much land did a honey fungus cover?
(a) About 5 square miles.
(b) 7 square miles.
(c) Almost 4 square miles.
(d) 2 square miles.
Short Answer Questions
1. How high were herring gulls flying in "Ants"?
2. What was the weather like at the beginning of "Sex, Death, Mushrooms"?
3. In "The Student's Tale," what did the refugee do when he learned that the School for Clinical Medicine was closed?
4. How many years did it take the author to understand her premenstrual pattern?
5. When was Florence Merriam's Birds Through an Opera-Glass published?
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