Vesper Flights Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

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 | Mid-Book Test - Hard

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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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When were boars introducted to New Hampshire?

2. When did the World Health Organization create a definition of healthy that referred to no one?

3. When were the Cabinet of Curiosities a craze in Europe?

4. When was Florence Merriam's Birds Through an Opera-Glass published?

5. How long might a queen of a common black ant live?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the author say about the "Tribute of Light" and its danger to birds?

2. When were boars illegally dumped in the Forest of Dean, and how did the forest commission try to manage them?

3. How does the author say that field guides need to be learned to read?

4. Who is Nathalie Cabrol?

5. When does the author like to walk in the woods, and what have her experiences been like?

6. When does the author remember having visual disturbances with a migraine, and how did she handle them?

7. Why does the author believe that science and literature are needed to document extinctions?

8. What type of collection did the author have when she was small?

9. How does the author describe a column of flying ants?

10. Who did the author interview in "The Student's Tale"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why was the author struggling with knowing what season it was? How did the hares signal to her that it was spring? How and why did the author connect hares to the coming of spring?

Essay Topic 2

Birds migrate, usually to warmer climates. What migrations does the author describe that she witnessed? Why is migration such a dangerous endeavor?

Essay Topic 3

Why did the author become obsessed with a painting called Swan Upping at Cookham? What did the author communicate about the past and Brexit through the tradition of swan upping?

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