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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 long would whoopers swans fly when crossing the North Atlantic to England?
(a) 12 hours.
(b) 15 hours.
(c) 10 hours.
(d) 8 hours.

2. When did the British Trust for Ornithology begin fitting satellite tags to Britsh-trapped cuckoos?
(a) 2009.
(b) 2011.
(c) 2000.
(d) 2005.

3. What did the wavelength of transmitted radar waves shorten to when they started getting radar reflections of birds?
(a) 10 centimeters.
(b) 5 centimeters.
(c) 12 centimeters.
(d) 8 centimeters.

4. When did Maxwell Knight, an intelligence officer, place agents in various organizations?
(a) 1930s to end of World War II.
(b) 1920s to 1950s.
(c) 1950s to 1970s.
(d) 1940s to 1980s.

5. Which of the author's relatives was distressed by storms because of the reminder of the Blitz?
(a) Aunt.
(b) Great-uncle.
(c) Grandfather.
(d) Grandmother.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Berries," when did the author say was the last time that she and her mother saw wax-wings?

2. What did Macdonald look for in a disused chalk quarry in "In Spight of Prisons"?

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

4. When did Macdonald mention that she saw the breath of a fallow buck in "Deer in the Headlights"?

5. How long could the author ride on a horse before her allergies got too severe to continue riding?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Macdonald and her brother were children, how did they observe blue tits?

2. What were the nestboxes like that Macdonald ordered for house martins?

3. What encounter did Macdonald have with a swan at the Jesus Lock?

4. What did the author search for in a disused chalk quarry?

5. How does Macdonald compare waiting for a storm and waiting for other things in "Storm"?

6. How does the author describe the Wicken fens through the ages?

7. How does the author describe the painting Swan Upping at Cookham?

8. How were elephant seals involved in a project studying climate change in West Antarctica?

9. Where were peregrine falcons nesting in "The Falcon and the Tower"?

10. How did the author's father tell her that she could figure out how far away a storm was?

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