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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of car did Helen's father drive?
(a) Peugeot.
(b) Vauxhill.
(c) Rover.
(d) Audi.

2. In Chapter 11, what ruins did White walk to with his hawk?
(a) An old barn.
(b) An old farmhouse.
(c) St. Thomas the Martyr chapel.
(d) St. Catherine's chapel.

3. If White had known what he was doing, how long would it have taken to fly his bird free?
(a) A month.
(b) A week.
(c) 5 days.
(d) 2 weeks.

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

5. How much money did the author have with her in Chapter 5?
(a) 750 pounds.
(b) 600 pounds.
(c) 650 pounds.
(d) 800 pounds.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was a pine forest planted in Evelyn's Travelling Sands?

2. In Chapter 3, when had the author convinced herself that she was pretty much back to normal?

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

4. In Chapter 11, what time of day did Helen leave the house with her hawk?

5. When White took her hawk, how many were there in European forests?

Short Essay Questions

1. What terrible sin did White commit when training his bird?

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

3. How did Simon Latham describe goshawks in 1615?

4. Why was the author terrified in Chapter 3?

5. What was a "tiring"?

6. What was White's childhood like?

7. How did the author describe how her meeting with the falconer looked in Chapter 5?

8. Why did White overfeed his hawk?

9. Where had Helen traveled with an Uzbek student?

10. What artwork did the author describe in Chapter 6?

(see the answer keys)

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