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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. What type of car did Helen's father drive?

2. How much money did the author have with her in Chapter 5?

3. In Chapter 1, when did the author say that the winds blew the ground into a yellow cloud that obscured the sun?

4. How much weight could make a difference in how Helen's merlins flew?

5. When the author was a child, where was her favorite den?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the author have to do to train her hawk?

2. How did Christina react when Helen asked her to help train Mabel?

3. In Chapter 10, how did the author's hawk react to the hood and why?

4. How did Mabel change once she attained her flying weight?

5. How did the author describe the landscape she loved very much?

6. Why did the schoolboys he taught look up to White?

7. How did the author describe her hotel room in Chapter 5?

8. Why did White overfeed his hawk?

9. Where was White's cottage located?

10. What did a old female goshawk look like that was brought to a bird-of-prey center where Helen worked at one time?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A piece of reindeer moss was important to the author. What did the reindeer moss symbolize for her and why?

Essay Topic 2

White felt reborn after lying in the "grave" he made for himself to wait for Gos to return. What was the "grave" and why did it help White discard some things from his past and help him become a new man?

Essay Topic 3

The author told about her father's death. How did her father's death affect her and how did it change her life?

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