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

2. What did Macdonald look for in a disused chalk quarry in "In Spight of Prisons"?
(a) Wood-colored beetles.
(b) Cockchafters.
(c) Glow-worms.
(d) Green longhorn moths.

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

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

5. When did the author hear her first nightingale singing during a storm?
(a) 1960s.
(b) 1990s.
(c) 1980s.
(d) 1970s.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Julian Huxley says that if you did not know birds you did not know your country?

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

3. How close could the author get to the deer in "Deer in the Headlights"?

4. In America, about how many people died every year after their vehicles collided with deer?

5. Where did the author remember in "Nestboxes" staying where there was a pair of nesting laughing doves?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do swans flock to the Welney Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust reserve in the winter?

2. What does Macdonald say about allergies?

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

4. What did the author see on display in a university museum in Rostock, Germany?

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

6. How does the author describe vesper flights?

7. What did upping swans used to include?

8. When was the British Trust for Ornithology established, and what was its purpose?

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

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

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