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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 18, where was there a horrendous crash outside Cambridge?
(a) M18.
(b) M6.
(c) A30.
(d) A14.

2. In Chapter 28, how many pairs of trousers did Helen say she had torn to shreds when hawking?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

3. in Chapter 15, in what direction from the city did Stuart and Helen go to fly Mabel?
(a) North.
(b) East.
(c) West.
(d) South.

4. What type of hawks did White see in Three Parks Wood in Chapter 16?
(a) Sparrowhawks.
(b) Hobbies.
(c) Coopers Hawk.
(d) Broad-winged hawk.

5. How large is the bell that the author attaches at the base of Mabel's tail in Chapter 15?
(a) Size of an acorn.
(b) Size of a pea.
(c) Size of a grape.
(d) Size of a paddle ball.

6. In Chapter 18, what did White tie to all the places where Gos had been in an effort to get Gos back?
(a) Rabbit.
(b) Liver.
(c) Chick.
(d) Steak.

7. Where did Helen spend Christmas in Chapter 27?
(a) America.
(b) Paris.
(c) London.
(d) Berlin.

8. In Chapter 24, what did the doctor look like that Helen went to see?
(a) Large and blonde.
(b) Blonde-haired with blue eyes.
(c) Tall and red-haired.
(d) Dark-haired with a neat beard.

9. In Chapter 26, what birds were in the hedges?
(a) Buntings.
(b) Thrushes.
(c) Baltic blackbirds.
(d) Chaffinch.

10. In Chapter 22, how old was the man who wanted to ask questions about Helen's goshawk at the fair?
(a) 50s.
(b) Teens.
(c) 40s.
(d) 30s.

11. How much of the British rabbit population was killed by a virus?
(a) 30 percent.
(b) 95 percent.
(c) 80 percent.
(d) 15 percent.

12. How long were the days in Chapter 26?
(a) 5 hours.
(b) 6 hours.
(c) 5 1/2 hours.
(d) 7 hours.

13. In Chapter 25, on sunny mornings where did the larks sleep?
(a) Eastward slopes.
(b) Southern slopes.
(c) Northern slopes.
(d) Westward slopes.

14. In Chapter 17, how long did White write that he had been training Gos?
(a) 8 weeks.
(b) 6 weeks.
(c) 5 weeks.
(d) 7 weeks.

15. What damage did the author see when she went to get coffee in Chapter 17?
(a) Plants pulled in the park.
(b) Windows smashed on a store.
(c) Garbage cans tipped over.
(d) A car with a front bumper smashed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What poem did Helen remember reading during the first years she was slogging through her degree?

2. What bird did the author see in a glass box in an art gallery in Chapter 19?

3. How many engines did the plane have that Helen saw when she was out with Mabel in Chapter 20?

4. What prey did White put in a falconer's trap in Chapter 20?

5. By the late 1980s, how many California condors remained?

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