Vesper Flights Test | Final 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 | Final Test - Hard

Helen Macdonald
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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. In "Wicken," what did the author and her guests see when they walked Wicken Fen floating past them?

2. In "Deer in the Headlights," when was there a financial crash?

3. When did the British Trust for Ornithology begin fitting satellite tags to Britsh-trapped cuckoos?

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

5. In "Lost, But Catching Up," what did the author just discover that she was allergic to?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Storm," what could the author see as she drove on the M25?

2. What did the author and her mother see and hear in "Berries" while running errands?

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

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

5. How does the author describe vesper flights?

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

7. What happened to the orioles in Britain?

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

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

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

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

How did the author suffer from migraines from time to time? How would her life be put on hold during a migraine? Why were migraines so debilitating?

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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