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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Nothing Like a Pig," what season was it?
(a) Autumn.
(b) Summer.
(c) Spring.
(d) Winter.

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

3. When were the Cabinet of Curiosities a craze in Europe?
(a) 15th century.
(b) 14th century.
(c) 17th centry.
(d) 16th century.

4. What percent of the people who experience migraines experience visual disturbances with their headaches?
(a) 45%.
(b) 30%.
(c) 25%.
(d) 35%.

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

6. How many farm-reared boars were secretly and illegally dumped in the Forest of Dean in 2004?
(a) 35.
(b) 20.
(c) 45.
(d) 60.

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

8. How many different plant species ae found in Australia?
(a) 23,000.
(b) 41,000.
(c) 19,000.
(d) 30,000.

9. How many boars were shot in the Forest of Dean between 2014 and 2015?
(a) 361.
(b) 411.
(c) 198.
(d) 274.

10. How does the author describe the color of chanterelles in "Sex, Death, Mushrooms"?
(a) Dusky brown.
(b) Reddish-brown.
(c) Creamy white.
(d) Wax-yellow.

11. What does a boyfriend show Macdonald in the woods in "Nothing Like a Pig"?
(a) Fox.
(b) Boar.
(c) Bank vole.
(d) Badger.

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

13. In "The Student's Tale," what did the refugee do when he learned that the School for Clinical Medicine was closed?
(a) Swore.
(b) Sighed.
(c) Laughed.
(d) Cried.

14. How old was the author when she saw that the meadow at Tekels Park was destroyed?
(a) 50s.
(b) 42.
(c) 37.
(d) 40s.

15. Where did Macdonald join Cabrol and a team for an expedition to high-altitude desert to test methods of detecting life on Mars?
(a) Argentina.
(b) Chile.
(c) Peru.
(d) Colombia.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How high is the geyser field of El Tatio?

3. In "Ants," where was the author driving from?

4. When were boars introducted to New Hampshire?

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

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