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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 17-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What birds flew up from the roof when Helen took Mabel to the campus where she worked in Chapter 13?
(a) Pigeons.
(b) White doves.
(c) Wrens.
(d) Goldfinches.

2. What bird did the author hear outside her window at the beginning of Chapter 7?
(a) Wren.
(b) Robin.
(c) Chaffinch.
(d) Crow.

3. What did White whistle in Chapter 13 to his hawk?
(a) In the Garden.
(b) Fairest Lord Jesus.
(c) Psalm 23.
(d) All Creatures Great and Small.

4. In Chapter 17, what could the author hear a woman calling in the night?
(a) Billy! Billy!
(b) Peter! Peter!
(c) William! William!
(d) Adam! Adam!

5. How many time did the author weigh merlins when she used to fly them?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 4.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who described falconry as a kind of "high-intensity birdwatching"?

2. What was Mabel's flying weight?

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

4. In Chapter 18, where was there a horrendous crash outside Cambridge?

5. In Chapter 9, how many days pass as the author had the hawk almost constantly on her fist?

(see the answer key)

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