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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "A Cuckoo in the House," over the past quarter of a century, how many cuckoos had been lost?
(a) 75%.
(b) More than 60%.
(c) 80%.
(d) About 70%.

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

3. How did a British officer survive prison camps in Germany?
(a) Writing a journal.
(b) Watching rats.
(c) Watching birds.
(d) Digging a tunnel.

4. In "The Falcon and the Tower," where was the author?
(a) Normandy.
(b) Scotland.
(c) Ireland.
(d) Wales.

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

6. In "Wicken," how many acres of Wicken Fen had been returned to its former wetland state?
(a) 22,000.
(b) 14,000.
(c) About 13,000.
(d) Around 11,000.

7. What type of birds nested on Dublin's Poolbeg Power Station?
(a) Ospreys.
(b) Pigeons.
(c) Peregrine falcons.
(d) Gulls.

8. In "Wicken," what did the author and her guests see when they walked Wicken Fen floating past them?
(a) Eagle.
(b) Barn owl.
(c) Falcon.
(d) Hawk.

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

10. In "Sun Birds and Cashmere Spheres," how many years after Macdonald visited stands of poplars looking for orioles was there only one nest remaining?
(a) 3 years.
(b) 5 years.
(c) 4 years.
(d) 2 years.

11. Where did Eamonn first see a wild peregrine as a child?
(a) Wicklow Mountains.
(b) Old factory.
(c) Dublin gasometer.
(d) Near a waterfall.

12. In "Storm," when was the author driving?
(a) Fall.
(b) Winter.
(c) Summer.
(d) Spring.

13. In "Berries," when did the author say was the last time that she and her mother saw wax-wings?
(a) 9 years ago.
(b) 8 years ago.
(c) 5 years ago.
(d) 3 years ago.

14. If there was five seconds between lightning and thunder, how far away would the storm be?
(a) 1/2 mile.
(b) 1/4 mile.
(c) 2 miles.
(d) A mile.

15. In "The Arrow-Stork," how much of their lives might some cuckoos spend in the countries of origin?
(a) 5%.
(b) 10%.
(c) 15%.
(d) 25%.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Murmurations," what time did a flock of plovers fly low?

2. When did the author hear her first nightingale singing during a storm?

3. In "Swan Upping," how old did a waterman say that his swan hook was that broke?

4. When did the royal ownership of swans date back to?

5. When did Maxwell Knight, an intelligence officer, place agents in various organizations?

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