Vesper Flights Test | Final Test - Easy

Helen Macdonald
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 139 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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Vesper Flights Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many nests might a single cuckoo lay eggs?
(a) Around 10.
(b) As many as 12.
(c) 7 or 8.
(d) 5 or 6.

2. How many people were at the passport office in "Murmurations"?
(a) 25.
(b) 34.
(c) 30.
(d) 27.

3. In "Deer in the Headlights," when was there a financial crash?
(a) 2010.
(b) 2009.
(c) 2007.
(d) 2008.

4. What area did Glenn Albrecht mention that became unrecognizable through environmental change?
(a) Tennessee.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) New South Wales.
(d) South Africa.

5. How many eggs will a female glow-worm lay before dying?
(a) 50 to 150.
(b) 75 to 125.
(c) 80 to 100.
(d) 90 to 140.

6. In "Swan Upping," how old did a waterman say that his swan hook was that broke?
(a) 100 to 150 years old.
(b) 80 to 100 years old.
(c) 90 years old.
(d) 75 years old.

7. Where did the author remember in "Nestboxes" staying where there was a pair of nesting laughing doves?
(a) India.
(b) Egypt.
(c) South Africa.
(d) Madagascar.

8. When did Julian Huxley says that if you did not know birds you did not know your country?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1943.

9. Where did Macdonald once find a dead swift?
(a) Woods.
(b) Backyard.
(c) Under a bridge over the River Thames.
(d) Under a bridge over the River Lyne.

10. At the end of "Deer in the Headlights," what book did the author buy?
(a) Understanding Deer.
(b) The Radiant Lives of Deer.
(c) The Hidden Life of Deer.
(d) An Anthology of Deer.

11. In "Murmurations," what time did a flock of plovers fly low?
(a) 8:20 a.m.
(b) 9:05 a.m.
(c) 9:15 a.m.
(d) 8:00 a.m.

12. In "Storm," what birds did the author see when driving?
(a) Swifts.
(b) Geese.
(c) Ducks.
(d) Parakeets.

13. When did Maxwell Knight write Taming and Handling Animals?
(a) 1958.
(b) 1957.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1959.

14. In "Murmurations," where did the author remember watching starlings come to roost?
(a) Harwich.
(b) Liverpool.
(c) Brighton.
(d) Margate.

15. In the mid-1970s, what trees did the author watch with her mother being torn up and burned?
(a) Birch.
(b) Ash.
(c) Dutch elm.
(d) Alders.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did the author take for a walk around Wicken Fen?

2. In "Nestboxes," what 19th-century-naturalist installed sand martin nest pipes and other avian households at his Yorkshire estate?

3. After swifts leave their nest hole, how long will they fly?

4. In "Storm," when was the author driving?

5. How many beakfuls of mud might it take a Martin to build a nest?

(see the answer keys)

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