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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How many boars were shot in the Forest of Dean between 2014 and 2015?
(a) 361.
(b) 198.
(c) 411.
(d) 274.
2. At what altitude might shorebirds pass over Manhattan?
(a) 9,700 feet.
(b) 11,200 feet.
(c) 5 to 6,000 feet.
(d) 10 to 12,000 feet.
3. In "Sex, Death, Mushrooms," for how many years had the author gone with Nick on autumn mushroom hunts?
(a) 12.
(b) 9.
(c) 17.
(d) 15.
4. How many years did it take the author to understand her premenstrual pattern?
(a) 24.
(b) Nearly 30.
(c) About 15.
(d) 36.
5. What was a chaffinch nest made from that the author collected in "Nests"?
(a) Straw, soft twigs, and clay.
(b) Horsehair, moss, lichen, and pigeon feathers.
(c) Leaves, straw, and grass clippings.
(d) Threads, hair, and feathers.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did the son of prospective tenants carry with him when he and his parents looked at a place to rent in "Inspector Calls"?
2. How high were herring gulls flying in "Ants"?
3. What bird did the author see in "Human Flock"?
4. When was Cabrol the chief scientist on a team testing an experimental rover in the Atacama Desert?
5. At what altitude is the crater lake atop Licancabur on the Bolivian Altiplano?
Short Essay Questions
1. What symptoms did the author have preceeding a migraine?
2. When does the author remember having visual disturbances with a migraine, and how did she handle them?
3. When did the author first see boxing hares, and what did she learn about them?
4. How might birds make nests with human objects?
5. With whom and how did the author hunt for mushrooms in "Sex, Death, Mushrooms"?
6. Where did the author and her parents live when she was five, in 1976, and what did the author love to explore there?
7. What were Wunderkammer and when were they popular?
8. What is the danger of picking mushrooms to eat?
9. What expedition did Macdonald go on with Nathalie Cabrol?
10. How did boars spread after being introducted to New Hampshire in the 1890s?
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