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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of White's dog?
(a) Red.
(b) Brutus.
(c) Rover.
(d) Brownie.

2. In Chapter 14, how many yards did Helen want Mabel to fly before she would turn her loose?
(a) 100 yards.
(b) 50 yards.
(c) 30 yards.
(d) 75 yards.

3. What did the author mention that White drank at the beginning of Chapter 10?
(a) Wine.
(b) Whisky.
(c) Rum.
(d) Ale.

4. In Chapter 12, where is the man from that Helen speaks to when she is out walking with her hawk?
(a) Kazakhstan.
(b) France.
(c) Germany.
(d) Turkey.

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

6. What color was the skin of the author's hawk near her beak?
(a) Black.
(b) Beige.
(c) Brown.
(d) Yellow.

7. In Chapter 11, how men men did Helen hide from behind a tree trunk?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

8. In Chapter 14, by the fourth day of training, how far is Mabel flying to Helen?
(a) 15 yards.
(b) 35 yards.
(c) 50 yards.
(d) 25 yards.

9. What did a waiter bring Helen the night her father died?
(a) Double chocolate brownie with ice cream.
(b) Gourmet chocolates.
(c) Hot fudge sundae.
(d) German chocolate cake.

10. In Chapter 4, what color was the cover of the notebook White was writing in?
(a) Black.
(b) Grey.
(c) Brown.
(d) Blue.

11. At the beginning of Chapter 5, how far was the author from home?
(a) 215 miles.
(b) 400 miles.
(c) 65 miles.
(d) 150 miles

12. Where was the landscape the author had come to love very much?
(a) 45 minutes north-east of Cambridge.
(b) Near Bristol.
(c) 15 minutes south-west of Westminster.
(d) West of London.

13. When the author fell asleep and dreamed in Chapter 9, where did she find herself?
(a) At her father's grave.
(b) In a field with her father.
(c) A burned-out house.
(d) An old barn.

14. In Chapter 9, how many days pass as the author had the hawk almost constantly on her fist?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

15. How old was T.H. White when he had been a schoolmaster at Stowe for five years?
(a) 30.
(b) 29.
(c) 31.
(d) 33.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was the author when she first saw a trained goshawk?

2. In Chapter 3, how many men were left behind at the end of the day to wait for their goshawks?

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

4. In Chapter 12, what color bucket was a man using to clean the bottom of a racing boat?

5. How long did it take Helen's father to photograph every single bridge over the Thames?

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